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Make sure you're using a recent version of Maven. As of this writing, the latest was 2.2.1, and it worked fine. In particular, avoid version 2.2.0: it has a serious bug that affects deployments: MNG-4235.

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Making a Snapshot Release

One Step

From a clean, up-to-date copy of trunk, run the following command:

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The snapshot will be immediately available in the public Sonatype repository: http://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public

Making an Official

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Release

Update KEYS

Make sure the KEYS file at the root of the source tree has your up to date public code signing key and signatures listed. If you don't yet have a code signing key, see Creating a Code Signing Key. When you are ready, append your key with the following command:

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