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CHANGELOG.md

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 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+
+## [2.1.2]
 ### Fixed
-* intersects for multipolygons
 
+* `@terraformer/spatial`
+  * fix `intersects` for multipolygons
+  * start exporting `applyConverter`
 ## [2.1.1] - 2022-05-31
 
 ### Fixed
@@ -43,6 +47,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 * All packages are now standalone.
 
+[2.1.2]: https://github.com/terraformer-js/terraformer/compare/v2.1.1...v2.1.2
+[2.1.1]: https://github.com/terraformer-js/terraformer/compare/v2.1.0...v2.1.1
 [2.1.0]: https://github.com/terraformer-js/terraformer/compare/v2.0.7...v2.1.0
 [2.0.7]: https://github.com/terraformer-js/terraformer/compare/v2.0.5...v2.0.7
 [2.0.5]: https://github.com/terraformer-js/terraformer/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.5

CONTRIBUTING.md

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-Esri welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone. Please see our [guidelines for contributing](https://github.com/esri/contributing).
+Esri welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone. Please see our [guidelines for contributing](https://github.com/esri/contributing).
+
+## Publishing a release
+
+1. Update CHANGELOG.md manually
+1. `npm test` to ensure all is well
+1. `npm run doc` shouldn't result in any changed files
+1. `npm run release`
+
+under the hood, this will call `lerna publish`. you'll get a chance to specify `patch | minor | major` and only the packages that have changed since last time will be published.
+