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 The release process of a new version of KEDA involves the following: 
 
-**1). Deploy the new KEDA images to dockerhub**
+**0) Prerequisites**
 
 Look at the last released version in the releases page: https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases
 For example: currently it is 1.1.0
 The next version will thus be 1.2.0 
 
-The dockerhub repo with all the different images can be seen here: https://hub.docker.com/r/kedacore/keda/tags
+**1) Update KEDA version in code and YAMLs**
+
+Update version string in:
+https://github.com/kedacore/keda/blob/master/version/version.go 
+
+Update sections related to images in these yamls:
+https://github.com/kedacore/keda/blob/master/deploy/12-operator.yaml
+https://github.com/kedacore/keda/blob/master/deploy/22-metrics-deployment.yaml
+
+Commit these changes.
+
+**2) Deploy the new KEDA images to Docker Hub**
+
+The Docker Hub repo with all the different images can be seen here: https://hub.docker.com/r/kedacore/keda/tags
 
 Creating a new release in the the releases page (https://github.com/kedacore/keda/release) will trigger a GitHub workflow which will create a new image with the latest code and tagged with the next version (in this example 1.2.0) and also change the latest tag to point to this image as well. 
 
-**2). Update Helm Charts**
+**3) Update Helm Charts**
 
 a). Update the version and appVersion here:  https://github.com/kedacore/charts/blob/master/keda/Chart.yaml 
 b). In the image section update the keda and metricsAdapter to point to the docker images from step 1 https://github.com/kedacore/charts/blob/master/keda/values.yaml
 
 Then run the commands here: https://github.com/kedacore/charts
 
-**3). Update the operator YAML**
-
-Update the two sections in the yaml here related to images in this yml
-https://github.com/kedacore/keda/blob/master/deploy/operator.yaml
-
 -- To deploy KEDA through Azure Functions Core Tools --
 
 Update the following file: