# Cutting a new release of `Wac`
To cut a new release, you will need to do the following:
1. Confirm that [CI is green](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wac/actions) for the commit selected to be tagged and released.
2. Change the workspace version number in [Cargo.toml](./Cargo.toml) and the versions for the crates in the workspace dependencies (e.g. `wac-parser`). Additionally change the version in the result `wat` files that include a `producers` section. E.g.:
``` (@producers (processed-by "wac-parser" "0.8.0"))```
3. Create a pull request with these changes and merge once approved.
4. Checkout the commit with the version bump from above.
5. Create and push a new tag with a `v` and then the version number.
As an example, via the `git` CLI:
```
# Create a GPG-signed and annotated tag
git tag -s -m "Wac v0.8.0" v0.8.0
# Push the tag to the remote corresponding to bytecodealliance/wac (here 'origin')
git push origin v0.8.0
```
6. Pushing the tag upstream will trigger the release actions which creates a release and publishes the crates in this workspace to `crates.io`