new release and updating instructions

RELEASES.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ To create a new release of Jupyter Book, you need to do these things:
 1. Ensure that you have push access to the [Jupyter Book pypi repository](https://pypi.org/project/jupyter-book/)
 2. Install [the twine package](https://twine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). This is a package that helps you
    bundle and push new Python package distributions to pip.
-3. Install the [github-changelog-generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator#installation).
+3. Install the [github-activity](https://github.com/choldgraf/github-activity) package to generate a changelog.
 
 ## To create the release
 
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ and check off the boxes as you complete items:
 
 
 ```
-- [ ] Ensure that there aren't any extra issues tackle in
+- [ ] Ensure that there aren't any extra issues to tackle in
    [the milestone for the next release](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-book/milestones?direction=asc&sort=due_date)
-- [ ] Label any major bug fixes, enhancements, and documentation improvements in the merged PRs and Issues
+- [ ] Label any major bug fixes, enhancements, maintenance, and documentation improvements in the merged PRs
 - [ ] Ensure that the [Jupyter Book version number](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-book/blob/master/jupyter_book/__init__.py)
    is correct, and remove the `dev0` part of the version number.
    Make a PR with the new number and merge into master.
@@ -33,22 +33,22 @@ and check off the boxes as you complete items:
       fill it in later.
 - [ ] Bump the [Jupyter Book version number](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-book/blob/master/jupyter_book/__init__.py) to
    the next minor (or major) release and append `dev0` to the end.
-- [ ] Create a release summary that github_changelog_generator will use
-
-      * Create a new GitHub Issue
-      * In the Issue's Description field, add your release summary content
-      * Add the Issue Label "release-summary"
-      * Add the issue to the milestone of the version you just released
-      * Close the issue
-- [ ] Generate the new changelog using the `github-changelog-generator`.
-   * See [here for `github-changelog-generator` installation instructions](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator#installation).
+- [ ] **Generate a changelog** using the `github-activity` package.
+
+   * See [here for `github-activity` installation instructions](https://github.com/choldgraf/github-activity#installation).
    * Run the generator with this command:
 
      ```
-     github_changelog_generator jupyter/jupyter-book --token <<your-github-api-token>>
+     github-activity jupyter/jupyter-book --since <<latest-tag>> --until <<new-release-tag>> --auth <<your-github-api-token>> -o tmp.md
      ```
-   * It will overwrite [`CHANGELOG.md`](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-book/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+   * It will create a markdown changelog since the last jupyter-book release, and put it
+     in `tmp.md`. Copy the sections about **pull requests** and add it
+     to [`CHANGELOG.md`](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-book/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
      Ensure that the new version looks correct, then commit it to master.
-   * Copy the resulting markdown for the latest release into the GitHub release you just created.
+   * Create a release summary that describes the general changes that have been made,
+     add it to the changelog generated by `github-activity. Add this to the new section
+     of `CHANGELOG.md`.
+   * Commit the new changelog and merge it into master.
+- [ ] Copy the resulting markdown for the latest release into the GitHub release you just created.
 - [ ] Celebrate! You've just released a new version of Jupyter Book!
 ```
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jupyter_book/book_template/_config.yml

@@ -148,4 +148,4 @@ plugins:
   - jekyll-scholar
 
 # Jupyter Book version - DO NOT CHANGE THIS. It is generated when a new book is created
-jupyter_book_version: "0.6.3dev0"
+jupyter_book_version: "0.6.3"