Release Guide
Updating Plugin Tags
If you are a Plugin author who wishes to ensure compatibility with the latest Forge release versions – ensure that you update your Plugin to use the corresponding Forge API version. You should also create a git branch in your Plugin repository – the name of this branch should be exactly the same as the Forge API version you wish to support.
We recommend using branches instead of tags, because branches allow bug-fixes; whereas, tags are fixed, and require more work to re-tag a new version with appropriate enhancements of bug-fixes.
Uploading Release Documentation
You must have access to project documentation servers in order to upload project documentation:
cd core/git checkout {TAG}
mvn clean javadoc:aggregate -Pjavadoc
rsync -rv --protocol=28 target/javadoc/ forge@filemgmt.jboss.org:/docs_htdocs/forge/javadoc/