Apache Maven Release Plugin - Release 2.5

Mar 5, 2014 · 1 min read ·

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Release Plugin, version 2.5, together with the maven-release-manager.

This plugin automates release management.

Maven Release Manager

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

 1<plugin>
 2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 3  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
 4  <version>2.5</version>
 5</plugin>
 6```xml
 7
 8<!-- more -->
 9
10[Release Notes - Maven Release Plugin - Version 2.5](http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11144&version=19017)
11
12
13Bugs:
14
15 * [MRELEASE-812](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-812) - "prepare" does not commit before tagging and therefore deploys snapshot instead of release
16 * [MRELEASE-862](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-862) - Upgrade to Apache Maven SCM 1.9
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18
19Note in particular that MRELEASE-862 fixes the release plugin to work
20with git version 1.8 and newer.
21
22Enjoy,
23
24-The Apache Maven team