From 003f63b7f4cff3fc95357005358af2de0f5fe152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Onsi Fakhouri <onsijoe@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:13:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] v1.3.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md    | 14 ++++++++++++++
 CONTRIBUTING.md |  2 ++
 RELEASING.md    |  6 ++++++
 gomega_dsl.go   |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 RELEASING.md

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3e8ee444..06fe7ad08 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 ## HEAD
 
+## 1.3.0
+
+Improvements:
+
+- The `Equal` matcher matches byte slices more performantly.
+- Improved how `MatchError` matches error strings.
+- `MatchXML` ignores the order of xml node attributes.
+- Improve support for XUnit style golang tests. ([#254](https://github.com/onsi/gomega/issues/254))
+
+Bug Fixes:
+
+- Diff generation now handles multi-byte sequences correctly.
+- Multiple goroutines can now call `gexec.Build` concurrently.
+
 ## 1.2.0
 
 Improvements:
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 8c3342ba0..0d7a09928 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ Your contributions to Gomega are essential for its long-term maintenance and imp
     - Please run following linter locally `go vet ./...` and make sure output does not contain any warnings
 - Update the documentation.  In addition to standard `godoc` comments Gomega has extensive documentation on the `gh-pages` branch.  If relevant, please submit a docs PR to that branch alongside your code PR.
 
+If you're a committer, check out RELEASING.md to learn how to cut a release.
+
 Thanks for supporting Gomega!
diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..537050a9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+A Gomega release is a tagged sha and a GitHub release.  To cut a release:
+
+1. Ensure CHANGELOG.md is uptodate.
+2. Update GOMEGA_VERSION in `gomega_dsl.go`
+3. Push a commit with the version number as the commit message (e.g. `v1.3.0`)
+4. Create a new [GitHub release](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/) with the version number as the tag  (e.g. `v1.3.0`).  List the key changes in the release notes.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gomega_dsl.go b/gomega_dsl.go
index 0296fc472..175bef5e5 100644
--- a/gomega_dsl.go
+++ b/gomega_dsl.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/onsi/gomega/types"
 )
 
-const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.2.0"
+const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.3.0"
 
 const nilFailHandlerPanic = `You are trying to make an assertion, but Gomega's fail handler is nil.
 If you're using Ginkgo then you probably forgot to put your assertion in an It().