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Once the release candidate has been reviewed and approved by the community, the release should be finalized. This involves the final deployment of the release candidate to the release repositories, merging of the website changes, etc.
Deploy artifacts to Maven Central Repository
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Copy the source and binary releases from the dev
repository to the release
repository at dist.apache.org
using Subversion. Make sure to remove the rc-${RC_NUM} suffix.
Git tag
Create a new Git tag for the released version by creating a new release version on GitHub.
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