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This PR is part of Issue #1436 – Document Deprecations and improves the
documentation of deprecated parameters in the Maven Release Plugin.

  • Updated documentation for generateReleasePoms in PrepareReleaseMojo
    to explain why it is deprecated and recommend using
    release:prepare-with-pom instead.
  • Updated documentation for useReleaseProfile in PerformReleaseMojo
    to clarify that the Maven super POM release-profile is being removed
    and projects should rely on explicit project-defined release profiles.
  • No functional behavior changes.
  • Build successfully verified using mvn clean install.

Reference: #1436
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* true, which activates the profile "<code>release-profile</code>" as inherited from
* <a href="/ref/3.8.5/maven-model-builder/super-pom.html">the super pom</a>.
* Whether to use the default {@code release-profile} from the Maven
* super POM (Maven 2 and 3), which adds sources and javadocs to the
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delete (Maven 2 and 3),

* Controls whether the plugin should generate release POMs during the
* prepare phase.
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* @deprecated This flag is no longer the preferred way to perform a
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delete "This flag is no longer the preferred way to perform a release."

* prepare phase.
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* @deprecated This flag is no longer the preferred way to perform a
* release. Use the dedicated {@code release:prepare-with-pom}
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just "Use the {@code release:prepare-with-pom} goal instead."

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Thanks for the review. I’ve updated the Javadoc as requested.

@anukalp2804 anukalp2804 force-pushed the doc-deprecations-release-plugin branch from 56e7efd to 28abf56 Compare January 8, 2026 14:43
* <a href="/ref/3.8.5/maven-model-builder/super-pom.html">the super pom</a>.
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* @deprecated The <code>release-profile</code> profile will be removed from future versions of the super POM
* Whether to use the default {@code release-profile} from the Maven super POM, which adds sources and javadocs to the released artifacts when appropriate.
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This removes some content but does not document how to replace this method.

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Thanks for the review. I’ve updated the Javadoc to document the replacement approach as suggested.

@anukalp2804 anukalp2804 force-pushed the doc-deprecations-release-plugin branch from 28abf56 to e2ad2d9 Compare January 14, 2026 14:20
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Improved documentation for deprecated parameters:
- generateReleasePoms: explained deprecation and pointed users to
  release:prepare-with-pom.
- useReleaseProfile: clarified that the super POM release-profile is
  being removed and projects should rely on explicit profiles instead.

No functional changes. Build verified.
@anukalp2804 anukalp2804 force-pushed the doc-deprecations-release-plugin branch from e2ad2d9 to a546ec7 Compare January 15, 2026 13:21
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resolve conflicts

Thanks for the review. I’ve rebased onto upstream/master and resolved the conflicts.

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Hi, just checking in — this PR was approved earlier. Please let me know if anything else is needed from my side before it can be merged. Thanks!

@elharo elharo added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Feb 15, 2026
@elharo elharo merged commit 9ca1a85 into apache:master Feb 15, 2026
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Thank you for the review and merge 🙂

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