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• a Java JDK in according with target JDK (Java 5 for JMeter 2.8)
• a recent Ant binary (1.8+)
• subversion (svn) client installed (version 1.7+); the command-line utility svnmucc is needed (it should be included in the svn client installation (svn-tools dir), but please check)
• a text editor
• hostname must resolve to ip address (not loopback)
• Internet access
  

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ant RC_upload -DRC=RCn -DrepoType=live [-Dasf.ldap.password=secret [-Dasf.ldap.usermameusername=user] ]

The files should now be available under https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/jmeter/

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ant RC_publish -DRC=RCn -DrepoType=live [-Dasf.ldap.password=secret [-Dasf.ldap.usermameusername=user] ]

Update main distribution files

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