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 You can publish a release of `carbon-components` by following these steps:
 
-- Verify that you are on `master` and are up-to-date by running `git pull upstream master`
-  - This assumes you have setup `upstream` pointed towards `carbon-components`
-- Create a new branch called `release/vX.Y.Z` where `X.Y.Z` is the version you
-  would like to publish
-- Update the `version` field in `package.json` to the version you used above
-- Commit this version change with the commit message: `vX.Y.Z`
-- Create a Pull Request and request reviewers
-- After the Pull Request has been approved, merge into master
-- Now you can publish the package to `npm`. Do this you can run the following
-  command for a dry run:
-  - `npm publish . --dry-run`
-- If you need to tag this package, you can use the `--tag` flag, for example:
-  - `npm publish . --tag next`
-- If the changes look good to go, you can run the following command to publish:
-  - `npm publish .`
-- After the package is published, you should create a git tag by running:
-  - `git tag vX.Y.Z`
-- You can then push this tag upstream by running:
-  - `git push upstream vX.Y.Z`
-- After pushing the tag upstream, you should see the tag appear under
-  [releases](https://github.com/IBM/carbon-components/releases)
-- Edit the tag under releases with our CHANGELOG format, you can get the most
-  recent changelog by running the following command and viewing the generated
-  `CHANGELOG.md` file:
-  - `npx conventional-changelog-cli -p angular -i CHANGELOG.md -s -r 0`
-- After updating the release on GitHub, you should be good to go! Congrats on
-  the release!!! <span aria-label="celebrate">🎉</span>
+1. Verify that you are on `master` and are up-to-date by running:
+   - `git pull upstream master && git fetch upstream --tags`
+   - This assumes you have setup `upstream` pointed towards `carbon-components`
+1. Create a new branch called `release/vX.Y.Z` where `X.Y.Z` is the version you
+   would like to publish
+1. Update the `version` field in `package.json` to the version you used above
+1. Commit this version change with the commit message: `vX.Y.Z`
+1. Create a pull Request and request reviewers
+1. Run the following command and include the latest changes in your pull request
+   - `npx conventional-changelog-cli -p angular -i CHANGELOG.md -s -r 0`
+   - If the the release range is off, ensure you fetched the upstream tags (step 1)
+1. After the pull Request has been approved, merge into master
+1. Now you can publish the package to `npm`. Do this you can run the following
+   command for a dry run:
+   - `npm publish . --dry-run`
+1. If you need to tag this package, you can use the `--tag` flag, for example:
+   - `npm publish . --tag next`
+1. If the changes look good to go, you can run the following command to publish:
+   - `npm publish .`
+1. After the package is published, you should create a git tag by running:
+   - `git tag vX.Y.Z`
+1. You can then push this tag upstream by running:
+   - `git push upstream vX.Y.Z`
+1. After pushing the tag upstream, you should see the tag appear under
+   [releases](https://github.com/IBM/carbon-components/releases)
+1. Edit the tag under releases to include the changelog from your pull request (step 6)
+1. After updating the release on GitHub, you should be good to go! Congrats on
+   the release!!! <span aria-label="celebrate">🎉</span>