In this step, we will check whether the package contains change logs, versions, and so on. The following command makes our package consistent and recommended for release.
This command should execute from the local repository of the package:
$ catkin_prepare_release
The command will set a version tag if there is no current version, and commit the changes in the upstream repository.
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