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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ Please consider these guidelines when filing a pull request:
 
 ## Creating releases
 
+To create a release, you must create a pull request from the develop branch into 'master' using the 'Rebase and merge' option. Once this has been approved it will automatically run the pipeline to generate a new release. [example](https://github.com/UserOfficeProject/user-office-core/pull/1621)
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+After this, create a new pull request merging 'master' into 'develop' using the 'Rebase and merge' option. There should be no files changed, but the commits listed. This is to ensure the branches remain in sync. [example](https://github.com/UserOfficeProject/user-office-core/pull/1623)
+
 UserOfficeProject/user-office-core uses [semantic-release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release)
 to release new versions automatically.