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• you have created your GPG keys. For more information, please refer to Making GPG Keys and http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html
• you have a GPG client installed and on your shell's path. See http://www.gnupg.org/
• you have a Subversion 1.5+ client installed and on your shell's path. See http://subversion.tigris.org/
• you have a GIT client installed. See https://git-scm.com/download/win
• you have the latest Java 1.6.x JDK installed and on your shell's path. See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html
• you have set the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m
• you are using Maven 3.2.x. See http://maven.apache.org/

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>mvn7 --version
Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T17:41:47+01:00)
Maven home: D:\DevTools\Maven\bin\..
Java version: 1.7.0_71, vendor: Oracle Corporation

Creating a new RC

Update the changelog file

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Make sure you provide the correct paths!
Now wait for the vote to succeed. 

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Unsuccessful vote: roll back changes on trunk

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Maybe send the release to some other sites as well (dzone) / do a blog post about it...