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Maven project to a staging repository and its documentation, whereupon it is scrutinized by the community, approved, and transferred to a production repository.</p> <p>The steps involved are similar for any Apache project, with more specifics for parent POMs and Maven itself. The steps involved, and the relevant documents for each, are listed below.</p> <ul> <li><a href="./maven-core-release.html"> Releasing Maven Core</a></li> <li><a href="./parent-pom-release.html"> Releasing a parent POM</a></li></ul> <p>The above links all provide specific information for those types of releases, but they all refer back to the common documentation:</p> <ul> <li><a href="./maven-project-release-procedure.html"> Maven Project Common Release procedure</a></li></ul></section> </main> </div> </div> <hr/> <footer> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="row-fluid"> <p>© 2002–2024 <a href="https://www.apache.org/">The Apache Software Foundation</a> </p> </div> </div> </footer> </body> </html>

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