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 ### 4. Build a release
 
 ``` bash
-yarn release
+ENV=prod yarn release 
 ```
 
+ENV: we can release a version for `staging` or `prod`. Logseq will read the environment variable from `resources/config.edn`
+
 ## Alternative: Docker based development environment
 
 ### 1. Fetch sources