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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Major, minor, patch releases
 3. Update translations using `make translate` 
 4. If you get npm errors, go into the ui folder and run `npm install`
 5. commit translations to `main` and push to remote
-6. run `bump2version release`. Note that bump2version won't show changes when you make the change, but it will work (see `git log` to check)
+6. run `bump2version --verbose --sign-tags release`. Note that bump2version won't show changes when you make the change, but it will work (see `git log` to check)
 7. push the tags to the remote with `git push --tags`
 8. push version bump to remote with `git push`
 9. merge `main` back into `develop`. Slightly unrelated to the release process but this is a good time to do it so that the new version numbers appear in `develop` as well