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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/

Make sure maven

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Although Empire-db is compatible with Java 6 we are ruilding Releases using JDK 7 in order to avoid certificate issues.

Java 8 or later have not been tested and approved.

The build process has been performed using Maven 3.3.9.

If Java 8 or later is installed on the machine, possibly create a mvn7 shell script and add it to your PATH in order to be able to use Java 7 to build the release.

/usr/bin/mvn7

#!/bin/sh
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java7"
mvn $@

test the script by running this command:

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pom is setup correctly

Please review the maven release process here:

Publishing Maven Releases to Maven Central Repository - Apache Infrastructure

https://infra.apache.org/publishing-maven-artifacts.html

The following versions of JDK and Maven should be used:

JDK:  Java Version 1.8.0_202

Maven:  Apache Maven 3.3.9 or later

Creating a new RC

Update the changelog file

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