Publishing new version

Prerequisites

pip command must be installed (it is probably already installed, if you have installed Python).
The python packaging tool must be installed. If not run pip install pipenv and then pipenv install.

Start the automatic release process

Call pipenv run make_release.
On Windows it is recommended to run the command in cmd.exe rather than in a git bash.
Note that you have to add the Changelog notes manually on GitHub (GitHub > Latest (new) release > Edit).

Explanation of the script

The script will ask you what version you want to increase (major, minor, patch). Read the Versioning Strategy Guide first.
The version number will be updated automatically in corresponding files.
The Changelog section [unreleased] will be renamed to the release date like e.g. [2020-12-12] and a new [unreleased] section will be added on top of the Changelog.
A release post will be created for the GitHub Pages with the corresponding release notes from the Changelog.
You will be asked if you want to commit and tag the automatically changed files and thus, the release itself.
Then you will be asked if you want to push the release commits finally.
Our build pipeline will detect the new release (tag) and starts a build to publish the new release as npm packages on npmjs.com