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Updating your local maven cache will help to ensure that the release process goes more smoothly, and should help you to avoid any errors having to do with Maven being unable to locate any particular dependencies. That being said, this step actually may not be necessary, if our release process is working correctly.

Do a sanity check of the tests

You know, just to save yourself a bunch of embarrassment later, run the tests?

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mvn test -Dmaven.test.skip=false 

 

Do a Dry Run

This step is not required, but performs a useful sanity check without committing any changes. From your clean, up-to-date copy of master/branch, run the following command (from [dspace-src]):

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