The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Release Plugin, version 2.5.1.

The maven-release provides technology for automating releases, including the maven-release-plugin.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Release Plugin – Version 2.5.1

Bugs:

• [MRELEASE-875] – release:prepare does not commit pom.xml if not in the git root
• [MRELEASE-877] – release:branch commit msg faulty
• [MRELEASE-885] – When the base pom is a subdirectory, tagging fails in GIT
• [MRELEASE-888] – Update to SCM version 1.9.2

Improvement:

• [MRELEASE-883] – Upgrade SCM to 1.9.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team