Released 5.5.0

Author: bbottema

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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@@ -69,12 +69,19 @@ Simple Java Mail is available in [Maven Central](https://search.maven.org/#searc
 <dependency>
     <groupId>org.simplejavamail</groupId>
     <artifactId>simple-java-mail</artifactId>
-    <version>5.4.0</version>
+    <version>5.5.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
 ### Latest Progress ###
 
+[v5.5.0](https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.simplejavamail%7Csimple-java-mail%7C5.5.0%7Cjar) (15-October-2019)
+
+- [#229](https://github.com/bbottema/simple-java-mail/issues/229) Bugfix: Timeouts not working for synchronous sendMail calls.
+
+If you had connection properties configured for non-async send jobs, only now they will actually start to take effect.
+
+
 [v5.4.0](https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.simplejavamail%7Csimple-java-mail%7C5.4.0%7Cjar) (28-August-2019)
 
 - [#221](https://github.com/bbottema/simple-java-mail/issues/221) API bugfix: server identity verification should not be tied to host trusting

RELEASE.txt

@@ -3,9 +3,16 @@ http://www.simplejavamail.org
 <dependency>
     <groupId>org.simplejavamail</groupId>
     <artifactId>simple-java-mail</artifactId>
-    <version>5.4.0</version>
+    <version>5.5.0</version>
 </dependency>
 
+v5.5.0 (15-October-2019)
+
+- 229: Bugfix: Timeouts not working for synchronous sendMail calls.
+
+If you had connection properties configured for non-async send jobs, only now they will actually start to take effect.
+
+
 v5.4.0 (28-August-2019)
 
 - #221: API bugfix: server identity verification should not be tied to host trusting

pom.xml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     <artifactId>simple-java-mail</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>Simple Java Mail</name>
-    <version>5.4.0</version>
+    <version>5.5.0</version>
     <description>Simple API, Complex Emails. A light weight wrapper for the JavaMail SMTP API</description>
     <url>http://http://www.simplejavamail.org/</url>