diff --git a/MAINTENANCE.md b/MAINTENANCE.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Maintenance instructions
+
+## Releasing a new version
+
+A new version can be released by running the [Create New Version](https://github.com/bcc-code/directus-schema-sync/actions/workflows/create-version.yml) workflow from GitHub.
+
+This will update the version in the `package.json`, push a Git commit and tag, and create a new [release](https://github.com/bcc-code/directus-schema-sync/releases) in GitHub.
+
+Maintainers can publish this release, after which the new version will be pushed to npm with the `latest` tag.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
 		"link": "directus-extension link",
 		"pre-test": "tsc -p tsconfig.test.json",
 		"test": "npm run pre-test && node --test dist-test/",
-		"create-version": "node ./scripts/version.cjs"
+		"create-version": "node ./scripts/version.cjs",
+		"release-channel": "node ./scripts/release-channel.js"
 	},
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"@directus/extensions-sdk": "10.1.11",
diff --git a/scripts/release-channel.js b/scripts/release-channel.js
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+// Given a version, figure out what the release channel is so that we can publish to the correct
+// channel on npm.
+// Copied from https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons/blob/eee05eb77af6cdedfb97f128d1998773fc984b28/scripts/release-channel.js
+//
+// E.g.:
+//
+//   1.2.3                  -> latest (default)
+//   0.0.0-insiders.ffaa88  -> insiders
+//   4.1.0-alpha.4          -> alpha
+
+let version =
+  process.argv[2] || process.env.npm_package_version || require("../package.json").version;
+
+let match = /\d+\.\d+\.\d+-(.*)\.\d+/g.exec(version);
+if (match) {
+  console.log(match[1]);
+} else {
+  console.log("latest");
+}
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