diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ea8c4bf..cfb0e48 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /target
+/release
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diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..fb41c0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+version=$1
+if [ -z "$version" ]; then
+  echo "Usage: release.sh <version>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Building binaries for version $version"
+cross build --release --target x86_64-apple-darwin
+cross build --release --target aarch64-apple-darwin
+CROSS_CONTAINER_OPTS="--platform linux/amd64" cross build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+CROSS_CONTAINER_OPTS="--platform linux/amd64" cross build --release --target arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
+CROSS_CONTAINER_OPTS="--platform linux/amd64" cross build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
+CROSS_CONTAINER_OPTS="--platform linux/amd64" cross build --release --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+
+mkdir -p release/${version}
+
+echo "Creating release artifacts"
+tar -czvf release/${version}/jstern_${version}_darwin_amd64.tar.gz -C target/x86_64-apple-darwin/release jstern
+tar -czvf release/${version}/jstern_${version}_darwin_arm64.tar.gz -C target/aarch64-apple-darwin/release jstern
+tar -czvf release/${version}/jstern_${version}_linux_amd64.tar.gz -C target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release jstern
+tar -czvf release/${version}/jstern_${version}_linux_arm.tar.gz -C target/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/release jstern
+tar -czvf release/${version}/jstern_${version}_linux_arm64.tar.gz -C target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release jstern
+tar -czvf release/${version}/jstern_${version}_windows_amd64.tar.gz -C target/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/release jstern.exe
+zip release/${version}/jstern_${version}_windows_amd64.zip target/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/release/jstern.exe
+
+echo "Creating checksums.txt"
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_darwin_amd64.tar.gz > release/${version}/checksums.txt
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_darwin_arm64.tar.gz >> release/${version}/checksums.txt
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_linux_amd64.tar.gz >> release/${version}/checksums.txt
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_linux_arm.tar.gz >> release/${version}/checksums.txt
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_linux_arm64.tar.gz >> release/${version}/checksums.txt
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_windows_amd64.tar.gz >> release/${version}/checksums.txt
+shasum -a 256 release/${version}/jstern_${version}_windows_amd64.zip >> release/${version}/checksums.txt
+
+echo "Done!"
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