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+# Publishing a new version
+
+When looking to publish a new version, we can bump all the individual versions of the crates with
+
+```
+cargo workspaces version patch --all --no-git-push --no-git-tag --allow-branch "*"
+```
+
+This ensures that the workspaces have the right versioning