Project release process

Instructions for releasing a new version of jboss-ejb3-ext-api:

Prepare and perform the artifact deployment with maven-release-plugin:

export VERSION=<RELEASE_VERSION, e.g., 1.0.0.Final>
export NEXT_VERSION=<NEXT_DEV_VERSION, e.g., 1.0.1.Final-SNAPSHOT>
mvn -DreleaseVersion=$VERSION -Dtag=$VERSION -DdevelopmentVersion=$NEXT_VERSION release:prepare release:perform -Prelease

Login to JBoss Nexus to verify and publish the release

• Navigate to Staging Repositories
• Find the newly created jboss-ejb3-ext-api staging repository
• Verify the content
• Close the staging repository
• Refresh the list of staging repositories
• Release the staging repository

Record the release in github

• Navigate to jboss-ejb3-ext-api github tags
• Select the current release tag
• Click Create release from tag
• Create the release notes, with the option of announcing the release in Discussions