Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/beltoforion/SentioProberControl

Author: Ingo Berg

README.md

@@ -32,13 +32,18 @@ After the uninstallation you can proceed with the installation as explained in t
 
 ## Instructions for package maintainer (updating the package) 
 
-*The following instructions are for creating a new release of the package. If you only want to use the package you do not need to do this! Just follow the instructions listed above for installing an existing package.*
+*This section is for the package maintainers at MPI Corporation. The following instructions are for creating a new release of the package. If you only want to use the package you do not need to do this! Just follow the instructions listed above for installing an existing package.*
 
 1.) Get the latest version of setuptools and wheel:
 
 ```python -m pip install --user --upgrade setuptools wheel```
 
-2.) create the distribution archive:
+2.) Update the package Version number
+
+Open the file setup.py an change the "version" attribute to the most current version of SENTIO tested with the python package. The python package is backwards
+compatible and will run with older SENTIO versions in general but it may contain new API bindings that are missing in the old versions.
+
+3.) create the distribution archive:
 
 cd into the archive (where setup.py) is located.
 
@@ -52,4 +57,6 @@ dist/
   sentio-prober-control-3.5.0.tar.gz
 ```
 
-3.) Create a new release on GitHub with the new binary archive
+4.) Create a new release on GitHub with the new binary archive
+
+Make sure to manually add the created python package to the release.