Release checklist

• Update release notes in draft release
• Update hyperparameters in draft release
• Update contributor list in draft release
• Package and upload checkpoint, models, and audio examples
• Upload models somewhere else (e.g. personal fork release) and link prod model tests and examples tests to new URLs
• Update all references to previous release in documentation
• Bump VERSION file to new version
• Merge PR bumping VERSION file, then tag new version on the merge commit
• Push tag
• Publish the draft release pointing to the existing tag
• Monitor task group created from the tag to make sure everything is built and published
• Manually check package repositories after publish is complete
  • https://pypi.org/project/deepspeech/
  • https://pypi.org/project/deepspeech-gpu/
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/deepspeech
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/deepspeech-gpu
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DeepSpeech
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DeepSpeech-GPU
• Make the new version the default on https://deepspeech.readthedocs.io/