# New Grafana Release Processes ## Building release packages 1) Update package.json so that it has the right version. 2) Create a git tag for the release: `git tag -a v3.0.4 -m "3.0.4 release"` 3) Push branch & tag to github! 2) Packages from master a built automatically by circle CI for this repo [grafana/grafana-packer](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-packer) ### Non master branch When building from non master branch create a new branch in repo [grafana/grafana-packer](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-packer) and configure circle.yml to deploy that branch as well, https://github.com/grafana/grafana-packer/blob/master/circle.yml#L25, you also need to update https://github.com/grafana/grafana-packer/blob/v3.1.x/deploy.sh#L7. ### Windows build Sign into ci.appveyor.com and the Grafana project's build history page. Builds for windows take a long time (around 20min) and fail quite often for random reasons so I usually continue with the release process without a windows build already built. 1) Click on the green build that has the correct version and tag 2) Click on `DEPLOYMENTS` 3) Click on `NEW DEPLOYMENT` 4) Select GrafanaBuildS3 4) Select the build you want to deploy. The deployment should be quick (just uploads the release zip file to S3)