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+*builds/
+*-staged/
+*.zip
+*.dmg
diff --git a/scripts/artifacts/README.md b/scripts/artifacts/README.md
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+# Building for release
+
+## Build Helper workflow
+
+Our release builds are managed by the "Build Helper" GitHub Action, which is defined
+in [`build-helper.yml`](../../.github/workflows/build-helper.yml).
+
+Under the hood, this will call the `package` task in
+[`Taskfile.yml`](../../Taskfile.yml), which will build the Electron codebase using
+WebPack and then the `wavesrv` and `mshell` binaries, then it will call `electron-builder`
+to generate the distributable app packages. The configuration for `electron-builder`
+is [`electron-builder.config.cjs`](../../electron-builder.config.cjs).
+
+This will also sign and notarize the macOS app package.
+
+Once a build is complete, it will be placed in `s3://waveterm-github-artifacts/staging-w2/<version>`.
+It can be downloaded for testing using the [`download-staged-artifact.sh`](./download-staged-artifact.sh)
+script. When you are ready to publish the artifacts to the public release feed, use the
+[`publish-from-staging.sh`](./publish-from-staging.sh) script to directly copy the artifacts from
+the staging bucket to the releases bucket.
+
+## Automatic updates
+
+Thanks to `electron-updater`, we are able to provide automatic app updates for macOS and Linux,
+as long as the app was distributed as a DMG, AppImage, RPM, or DEB file.
+
+With each release, `latest-mac.yml`, `latest-linux.yml`, and `latest-linux-arm64.yml` files will be produced that point to the
+newest release. These also include file sizes and checksums to aid in validating the packages. The app
+will check these files in our S3 bucket every hour to see if a new version is available.
+
+### Homebrew
+
+Homebrew is automatically bumped when new artifacts are published.
+
+### Linux
+
+We do not currently submit the Linux packages to any of the package repositories. We
+are working on addressing this in the near future.
+
+## `electron-build` configuration
+
+Most of our configuration is fairly standard. The main exception to this is that we exclude
+our Go binaries from the ASAR archive that Electron generates. ASAR files cannot be executed
+by NodeJS because they are not seen as files and therefore cannot be executed via a Shell
+command. More information can be found
+[here](https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/asar-archives#executing-binaries-inside-asar-archive).
+
+We also exclude most of our `node_modules` from packaging, as WebPack handles packaging
+of any dependencies for us. The one exception is `monaco-editor`.
diff --git a/scripts/artifacts/download-staged-artifact.sh b/scripts/artifacts/download-staged-artifact.sh
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+# Downloads the artifacts for the specified version from the staging bucket for local testing.
+# Usage: download-staged-artifact.sh <version>
+# Example: download-staged-artifact.sh 0.1.0
+
+# Retrieve version from the first argument
+VERSION=$1
+if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <version>"
+    exit
+fi
+
+# Download the artifacts for the specified version from the staging bucket
+DOWNLOAD_DIR=$VERSION-staged
+rm -rf $DOWNLOAD_DIR
+mkdir -p $DOWNLOAD_DIR
+aws s3 cp s3://waveterm-github-artifacts/staging-w2/$VERSION/ $DOWNLOAD_DIR/ --recursive --profile $AWS_PROFILE
diff --git a/scripts/artifacts/publish-from-staging.sh b/scripts/artifacts/publish-from-staging.sh
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+# Takes a release from our staging bucket and publishes it to the public download bucket.
+# Usage: publish-from-staging.sh <version>
+# Example: publish-from-staging.sh 0.1.0
+
+# Takes the version as an argument
+VERSION=$1
+if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <version>"
+    exit
+fi
+
+ORIGIN="waveterm-github-artifacts/staging-w2/$VERSION/"
+DESTINATION="dl.waveterm.dev/releases-w2/"
+
+OUTPUT=$(aws s3 cp s3://$ORIGIN s3://$DESTINATION --recursive --profile $AWS_PROFILE)
+
+for line in $OUTPUT; do
+    PREFIX=${line%%${DESTINATION}*}
+    SUFFIX=${line:${#PREFIX}}
+    echo "https://$SUFFIX"
+done