diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8caa63d8..881a0edb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+============
+Version 0.9 (budgie-session)
+============
+
+	Budgie Session forked from gnome-session at v44.0
+	Both budgie-session and gnome-session are now
+	co-installable.
+
 ============
 Version 44.0
 ============
diff --git a/scripts/mkRelease.sh b/scripts/mkRelease.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4a7a6465
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/mkRelease.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+rm -rf build
+meson --prefix /usr build
+ninja dist -C build
+
+VERSION=$(grep "version:" meson.build | head -n1 | cut -d"'" -f2)
+TAR="budgie-session-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
+VTAR="budgie-session-v${VERSION}.tar.xz"
+
+mv build/meson-dist/$TAR $VTAR
+
+gpg --armor --detach-sign $VTAR
+gpg --verify "${VTAR}.asc"
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