Releasing

Releasing

Prepare

Before doing a release, you should run this to verify your setup and that the build works correctly:

mvn -Prelease -Dgpg.executable=gpg2 clean install

Release

Create local release branch: 

git checkout master
git fetch --all
git merge upstream/master
git checkout -b release

Update the version:

mvn versions:set versions:commit -DprocessAllModules=true -DnewVersion=1.0.0-m03
git commit -am "Updating version for 1.0.0-m03 release"

Initialize the gpg agent so you won't get asked for the password during the build:

echo "Foobar" | gpg2 --clear-sign

Do the release:

mvn -Prelease -Dgpg.executable=gpg2 clean deploy

Log into Sonatype OSS, then "close" and "release" the staging repository.

If everything worked fine, tag the revision:

git tag 1.0.0-m03

Update the version:

mvn versions:set versions:commit -DprocessAllModules=true -DnewVersion=1.0.0-m04-SNAPSHOT
git commit -am "Preparing for next development iteration"

Merge everything to master:

$ git checkout master
$ git merge release
$ git branch -d release

Then push your changes:

$ git push upstream
$ git push upstream --tags

Your are done!