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If you're creating a new minor release, you will skip the above step and simply check out the release branchthe already existing branch for that version:

$ git checkout -b release-$SHORT_RELEASE_VERSION  

Now, create a release branch:

mvn release:branch \
    -DbranchName=${BRANCH_NAME} \
    -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false \
    -DupdateBranchVersions=true \
    -DreleaseVersion="${VERSION}-SNAPSHOT"

Check out the release branch.

git checkout ${BRANCH_NAME}

The rest of this guide assumes that commands are run in the root (or tools directory) of a repository on ${BRANCH_NAME} with on the branch of the release version with the above environment variables set.

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RC_NUM="1"
TAG="release-${VERSION}-rc${RC_NUM}"

Now, create a release branch:

$ cd tools
tools $ tools $ OLD_VERSION=$CURRENT_SNAPSHOT_VERSION NEW_VERSION=$RELEASE_VERSION RELEASE_CANDIDATE=$RC_NUM releasing/create_release_branch.sh

Use Maven release plugin to build the release artifacts, as follows:

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