diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
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+# How to make a release
+
+* open a Pull Request with a manual bump of in `main/dbt/adapters/athena/__version__.py`
+* create a new release from <https://github.com/dbt-athena/dbt-athena/releases>
+  * be sure to use the same version as in the `__version__.py` file
+  * be sure to start the release with `v` e.g. v1.6.3
+  * tag with the same name of the release e.g. v1.6.3
+  * be sure to clean up release notes grouping by semantic commit type,
+    e.g. all feat commits should under the same section
+* Once the new release is made be sure that the new package version is available in PyPI
+  in [dbt-athena-community](https://pypi.org/project/dbt-athena-comunity/)
diff --git a/dbt/adapters/athena/__version__.py b/dbt/adapters/athena/__version__.py
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--- a/dbt/adapters/athena/__version__.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/athena/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "1.6.2"
+version = "1.6.3"