RELEASING.md

Releasing

This is released from the main branch. Unless and older version needs patching, when it is released from a 1.1.x branch. If there is no branch for the release that needs patching, create it from the tag.

Cutting the release

Requires contributor access

• Check the draft release notes to see if everything is there
• Wait until main build finished after merging the last PR
• Update the draft release with the next tag version (eg. 1.2.0), title and release description
• Check that GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (GitHub will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to Sonatype)

Requires Sonatype access

• Go to Staging repository and release the concrete staging repository

Check Maven Central

• Play SOAP @ Maven Central