update changelog; increment release tag; update CONTRIBUTING.md

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Hi there. The core developers of EPIC thank you for your contribution. We have s
 1. [Unit Testing](#unit-testing)
 2. [Coding Style](#coding-style)
 3. [Opening a pull request](#pull-request)
+4. [Creating a new release](#new-release)
 
 ### Unit Testing <a name="unit-testing"></a>
 Please write unit tests for newly added features and routines. All unit tests are located in the directory `unit-tests`.
@@ -22,3 +23,9 @@ Please follow our coding style when contributing to EPIC.
 
 ### Opening a pull request <a name="pull-request"></a>
 Developers should fork the main repo.
+
+### Creating a new release <a name="new-release"></a>
+These are the steps to create new releases:
+1. update CHANGELOG.md
+2. increment the tag in configure.ac (in AC_INIT)
+3. draft new release on GitHub

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## EPIC version 0.12.1
+* [enable Python by](https://github.com/matt-frey/epic/pull/328)
+* [Beltrami flow by](https://github.com/matt-frey/epic/pull/330)
+* [remove 3D Taylor-Green flow by](https://github.com/matt-frey/epic/pull/331)
+* [add python EPIC config and write netCDF header by](https://github.com/matt-frey/epic/pull/329)
+* [fix reading netcdf datasets by](https://github.com/matt-frey/epic/pull/332)
 ## EPIC version 0.12.0
 * [replace HDF5 with NetCDF](https://github.com/matt-frey/epic/pull/325)
 ## EPIC version 0.11.0

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([epic], [0.12.0], [[email protected]], [], [https://github.com/matt-frey/epic])
+AC_INIT([epic], [0.12.1], [[email protected]], [], [https://github.com/matt-frey/epic])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign subdir-objects])
 AC_PROG_FC([gfortran])
 AC_LANG(Fortran)