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This release guide is based on the General guide for releasing Maven-based projects at Apache, so be sure to check it out before continuing and meet all prerequisites.
Note: Make sure that you are using JDK 6. However for releasing Camel 2.12.0 onwards better use JDK 7, this for the sake of the new HTML documentation feature which doesn't work properly because of misbehaving annotation processing in JDK 6.
Prerequisites
To prepare or perform a release you MUST BE at least an Apache Camel committer.
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