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This will take some time to propagate in which you can continue with the other steps of the release process.

Publishing Apache Sentry artifacts to maven central

1. Checkout the relevant git tag, e.g. git checkout release-1.8.0

2. Make sure you have an entry in your ~/.m2/settings.xml with id "apache.staging.https" with your Apache username + password, e.g.:
    <server>
           <id>apache.staging.https</id>
          <username>coheigea</username>
           <password>...</password>
    </server>

3. Deploy the release with: mvn clean deploy -Psign-artifacts

4. Go to https://repository.apache.org/ and log in using your Apache username + password.

5. Click on "Staging Repositories" on the left hand side.

6. Select the entry that starts with orgapacheranger and click on "close".

7. Verify via the URL that should appear after refresh that the artifacts look as expected.

8. After approval, click on "release".

Verifying a release candidate

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