This page describes the release process. We use [http://maven.apache.org Maven] for creating our releases and jar distributions.

You can find details of performing a release with Maven in the [http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/usage.html release plugin documentation]

Firstly you prepare the release

{{{
mvn -Dusername=your_username release:prepare
}}}

You will then be prompted for the next release version name and the tag to use along with the next development version.