How-To: Release on Maven Central¶

This page describes the steps to release Phenol on Maven Central.

Read the following first¶

Update the `README.rst` file¶

Change the version in the README.rst.

Update the `CHANGELOG.rst` file¶

Update the CHANGELOG.rst file to reflect the new version.
Create a new commit with this version.
Do not create a git tag as this will be done by Maven below.

Prepare the Release using Maven¶

mvn release:prepare

Answer with the default everywhere but use “vMAJOR.MINOR” for giving the tag name, e.g. “v0.15”. Eventually, this will update the versions, create a tag for the version and also push the tag to Github.

Perform the Release¶

mvn release:perform

Create the release and push it to Maven central/Sonatype.

Releasing the Deployment¶

Read this:

http://central.sonatype.org/pages/releasing-the-deployment.html

The publisher backend to Maven Central is here:

https://oss.sonatype.org/

Update README CHANGELOG¶

Open README.md and CHANGELOG.md and adjust the files to include the header for the next SNAPSHOT version.

Maven comments¶

mvn versions:set is useful for bumping versions