Notes on updating release version (#5066)

* Notes on updating release version

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* Update release/RELEASE.md

Co-Authored-By: Gary Verhaegen <gary.verhaegen@digitalasset.com>

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Co-authored-by: Gary Verhaegen <gary.verhaegen@digitalasset.com>
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1. Pull the latest master branch of the `daml` repository and create a new,
clean branch off it. For a snapshot, run `./release.sh snapshot HEAD`; for
a stable release, run `echo "$SHA $VERSION" > LATEST`. Ideally, for a stable
release, the resulting change is only to cut off the prerelease part of the
version number (the `-snapshot...`).
clean branch off it.
- For a snapshot run
- `./release.sh snapshot HEAD`;
- If applicable (e.g. latest release was a stable one), edit `LATEST` to update the release "version". For example, change
```
6ea118d6142d2a937286b0a7bf9846dbcdb1751b 0.13.56-snapshot.20200318.3529.0.6ea118d6
```
to
```
6ea118d6142d2a937286b0a7bf9846dbcdb1751b 0.13.57-snapshot.20200318.3529.0.6ea118d6
```
- For a stable release, run
- `echo "$SHA $VERSION" > LATEST`.
- Ideally, for a stable release, the resulting change is only to cut off the prerelease part of the version number (the `-snapshot...`).
1. **[STABLE]** In `docs/source/support/release-notes.rst`, add a new header
and label for the new version. (See previous releases as examples.)