diff --git a/marklogic/CHANGELOG.md b/marklogic/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-# Changelog
-
-All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
-
-The format is based on [Keep a Changelog 1.0.0].
-
-## [Unreleased]
-
-## [Release 1.0.7]
-- condition for <p>s without a @style attribute
-
-## [Release 1.0.6]
-- ADR 0009: Reading unpublished judgments and Marklogic security boundaries
-- ADR 0010: Interface with Enrichment
-- Use unfiltered search results
-- Add KB to Neutral Citation regex in helper.xqy
-- Search by consignment number
-- support for new header alignment styles
-
-## [Release 1.0.5]
-- Grant the caselaw-writer role the ability to view unpublished documents
-- Script to create python server (fastapi)
-- Privileged API spec improvement
-- Add VPN related documentation
-- Create failover replicas for the caselaw-content databases
-- Rename judgment0.xsl and judgment2.xsl to have more descriptive names
-
-## [Release 1.0.4]
-- changes for upcoming parser release: subparagraphs
-- Add a new privilege and role allowing users to view unpublished documents
-
-## [Release 1.0.3]
-- Document FRBRdate discussion as an ADR
-- remove inline fonts (except Symbol)
-- remove <h2>s
-- Deprecate loading data locally from S3
-
-## [Release 1.0.2]
-- use <b>, <i> and <u> elements
-
-## [Release 1.0.1]
-- Re-enable non-websafe images in the XSLT transformations
-
-## [Release 1.0.0]
-- Initial tagged release
-- Add transformation sort order for search
-
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.7...HEAD
-[Release 1.0.7]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.7...v1.0.6
-[Release 1.0.6]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.6...v1.0.5
-[Release 1.0.5]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.5...v1.0.4
-[Release 1.0.4]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.4...v1.0.3
-[Release 1.0.3]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.2...v1.0.3
-[Release 1.0.2]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.1...v1.0.2
-[Release 1.0.1]: https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1
-- [keep a changelog 1.0.0]: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
diff --git a/marklogic/README.md b/marklogic/README.md
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@@ -22,24 +22,16 @@ A `docker-compose.yml` file for running Marklogic locally is included. Run `dock
 
 ## Release versioning
 
-The releases are currently manually tagged. Please do not deploy to production without tagging a release.
+The releases are currently manually tagged. Please do not deploy to production without tagging a release. Currently
+there is no auto-deployment of releases, but we are using releases & tags to keep track of what has been deployed to
+production.
 
-When making a new release version, update the [changelog](CHANGELOG.md) in the release
-pull request.
-
-To create a versioned release:
-
-1. Create a branch `release/v{major}.{minor}.{patch}`
-2. Update changelog for the release
-3. Commit and push
-4. Open a PR from that branch to main
-5. Get approval on the PR
-6. Tag the HEAD of the PR `v{major}.{minor}.{patch}` and push the tag
-7. Merge the PR to main and push
+To create a versioned release, use Github's [release pricess](https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-public-access-service/releases)
+to create a tag and generate release notes.
 
 When deploying to production, check out the tag you want to deploy using (for example) `git checkout tags/v1.0.0`
 then deploy from there. Git will put you into a "detatched head" state, and once you have finished deploying you can
-switch back to the main branch (or any branch) but using `git checkout branchname` as normal.
+switch back to the main branch (or any branch) by using `git checkout branchname` as normal.
 
 TODO: Automatically deploy main to staging, and tags to production using CodeBuild.