modify org.jacoco.doc/docroot/doc/changes.html (replace "Snapshot Build" by "Release")

modify versions in POMs from SNAPSHOT to $releaseVersion

 ./mvnw versions:set -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -DprocessAllModules -DnewVersion=$releaseVersion

commit (should be exactly 33 modified files, verify by git st -s | wc -l or git show --stat)

 git ci --gpg-sign -a -m "Prepare release $releaseVersion"

create tag

 git tag --sign -m "Release $releaseVersion" v$releaseVersion

modify versions in POMs to next SNAPSHOT

 ./mvnw versions:set -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -DprocessAllModules -DnewVersion=$snapshotVersion

modify org.jacoco.doc/docroot/doc/changes.html (add "Snapshot Build")

commit (should be exactly 33 modified files, verify by git st -s | wc -l or git show --stat)

 git ci --gpg-sign -a -m "Prepare for next development iteration"

checkout tag

 git checkout v$releaseVersion

verify build from tag

 ./mvnw clean install

deploy from tag

./mvnw deploy -Prelease -Djdk.version=5 -Dbytecode.version=5

transfer from the OSSRH Staging API compatibility service to the Central Publisher Portal

curl -v -H "Authorization: Bearer BASE64" 
    \ -X POST 'https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/manual/upload/defaultRepository/org.jacoco'

See

• https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-portal-api/#authentication-authorization
• https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-portal-ossrh-staging-api/#1-modify-your-ci-script

verify deployment (https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-portal-api/#manually-testing-a-deployment-bundle), following artifacts should be available - http://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/repo.html:

push tag

git push origin v$releaseVersion

upload zip to corresponding GitHub release and update description with change information

publish deployment (https://central.sonatype.com/publishing/deployments)

update https://github.com/jacoco/www.eclemma.org , don't forget version in .github/workflows/ci.yml