Releasing

How to do a Release

Prerequisites

Releases are made with Maven. You need the following software installed:

• Maven 3
• GPG (If you're on a Mac, install GPGTools for OS X)
• GPG-Agent must be running
  • Mac: make sure GPG Keychain Access is running.
  • Linux: Install gpg-agent (on Ubuntu: apt-get install gnupg-agent) and run in your environment
  • To test gpg-agent is running, this should not ask for a passphrase: gpg -ab pom.xml
• Upload your public key - this is necessary to promote the release.

You also need a sonatype account and a ~/.m2/settings.xml file with your credentials. See Sonatype OSS Maven Repositories.

Releases

Make sure the POM file has a SNAPSHOT version. The release plugin will bump it during the release process.

If you need to change the local SSH key first:

ssh-agent bash
ssh-add ~/.ssh/your-github-key

Now you can release:

make release

When you have done this, log into Sonatype and Close and Release (just leave the comments empty, since we don't know who will ever read them).

A few hours later the jars will be synched to Maven Central. You can verify this by searching for webbit at http://search.maven.org/