The project is configured to be released using the Maven Release Plugin.

Some manual steps are required before performing a release build.

* Update the version strings in README_bin.txt and README_src.tst
* Update the version number in the Version class
* Update the version number in the VersionTest class
Commit these changes.

Push the Maven Artifacts to the Apache Staging Repository:
$ mvn release:prepare -Papache-release -DautoVersionSubmodules=true
$ mvn release:perform

Don't forget to close the staging repository prior to the vote.

Stage the Apache download repository at
  https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/taglibs
with the following files:
NOTICE
README_bin.txt
README_src.txt
taglibs-standard-1.2.x-source-release.zip
taglibs-standard-1.2.x-source-release.zip.asc
taglibs-standard-1.2.x-source-release.zip.md5
taglibs-standard-1.2.x-source-release.zip.sha1
taglibs-standard-compat-1.2.x.jar
taglibs-standard-compat-1.2.x.jar.asc
taglibs-standard-compat-1.2.x.jar.md5
taglibs-standard-compat-1.2.x.jar.sha1
taglibs-standard-impl-1.2.x.jar
taglibs-standard-impl-1.2.x.jar.asc
taglibs-standard-impl-1.2.x.jar.md5
taglibs-standard-impl-1.2.x.jar.sha1
taglibs-standard-jstlel-1.2.x.jar
taglibs-standard-jstlel-1.2.x.jar.asc
taglibs-standard-jstlel-1.2.x.jar.md5
taglibs-standard-jstlel-1.2.x.jar.sha1
taglibs-standard-spec-1.2.x.jar
taglibs-standard-spec-1.2.x.jar.asc
taglibs-standard-spec-1.2.x.jar.md5
taglibs-standard-spec-1.2.x.jar.sha1