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+# Steps to Release Localkube
+
+## Configure The Correct Kubernetes Version to Build for Localkube
+When building localkube for a specific Kubernetes version, follow the steps at [Updating Kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/README.md#updating-kubernetes).  After you have setup a new folder and GOPATH with the desired version of Kubernetes (from the directions above), you go on to build localkube.
+
+## Build the Localkube Release
+```shell
+make out/localkube
+```
+
+## Upload to GCS:
+
+```shell
+gsutil cp out/localkube  gs://minikube/releases/$K8S_RELEASE/localkube-linux-amd64
+```
+
+## Add the version to the k8s_releases.json file
+
+Add an entry **in the appropriate version location** to deploy/minikube/k8s_releases.json with the version, and send a PR.
+This file lists the available versions of localkube for minikube.
+Only add entries to this file that should be released to all users (no pre-release, alpha or beta releases).
+
+The schema for this file can be found in deploy/minikube/k8s_schema.json.
+
+An automated test to verify the schema runs in Travis before each submit.
+
+## Upload the releases.json file to GCS
+
+This step makes the new release trigger update notifications in old versions of Minikube.
+Use this command from a clean git repo:
+
+```shell
+gsutil cp deploy/minikube/releases.json gs://minikube/k8s_releases.json
+```
+
+## Mark the release as `latest` in GCS:
+
+```shell
+gsutil cp -r gs://minikube/releases/$RELEASE gs://minikube/releases/latest
+```
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 git commit -m "Manual changes to update Kubernetes to foo"
 ```
 
+## Steps to Release Minikube
+The steps to release minikube can be found at [RELEASING.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/RELEASING.md)
+
+## Steps to Release Localkube
+The steps to release localkube can be found at [LOCALKUBE_RELEASING.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/LOCALKUBE_RELEASING.md)
+
 ## Community
 
 Contributions, questions, and comments are all welcomed and encouraged! minkube developers hang out on [Slack](https://kubernetes.slack.com) in the #minikube channel (get an invitation [here](http://slack.kubernetes.io/)). We also have the [kubernetes-dev Google Groups mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-dev). If you are posting to the list please prefix your subject with "minikube: ".