Release Process

A-Frame

Bump your dependencies with npm install
Update CHANGELOG.md. Go through each commit in the Git log since the last release and include every notable patch. The categories should be Major Changes, Deprecations, Enhancements, Performance, Bug Fixes. In each category, loosely sort the more impacting changes at the top.
Update version field in package.json
Create versioned builds by modifying the npm run dist:min and npm run dist:max commands to build aframe (e.g., aframe.js and aframe.min.js) vs. aframe-master. This is for source maps to be build correctly since the source map URL points to a local path.
Update prerelease command in package.json with the before and after versions and npm run prerelease to update documentation, README.md, and build filenames with the new version.
Git tag
Publish GitHub release notes, copying and pasting from CHANGELOG.md
Create and push documentation branch (i.e., docs-vx.x.0, only for major versions)
Create builds for the CDN by modifying dist:min and dist:max commands to remove the -master suffix. Run npm run dist. Copy and push these aframe.* builds to the A-Frame releases repository. Also push these builds to the dist/ folder.
Deploy GitHub pages (npm run ghpages).
npm publish

For major versions.

Update aframe.current_version in _config.prod.yml
Add new version to multidep.json config, pointing to the documentation branch
In package.json, update the version in the bumpdocs command to have the bot force clean the documentation cache on each update
Publish blog post
Update src/_data/examples.yml

Coordinate with Inspector maintainers.

For major versions.

Bump A-Frame CDN URL in boilerplates (aframevr/aframe-boilerplate), CodePen, and Glitch.
Make a pull request to algolia/docsearch-configs to index documentation for search.
Announce on social channels (Twitter, Reddit, HN, Slack)