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Making a release candidate

• To publish a release candidate, remove the "-SNAPSHOT" and add "-RC{X}" to all pom.xml.
  For example, to do the first release candidate on 3.5.5, first run:

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  language xml title .m2 settings
  mvn clean org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.7:set -DnewVersion=3.5.5-RC0

  
  

• Make sure all the pom changed to the new version. For example, you could do a search in the project for previous versions. Some files (other than pom.xml) might also contain a hard coded version.

• Clean your working directory:

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  language xml title .m2 settings
  mvn clean git clean -fxd

  
  

Publishing

Once three PMC members have voted for a release, it may be published.

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