The Atomist BOM (Bill Of Materials) dependency keeps track of version numbers and ensure that all dependencies (both direct and transitive) are at the same version.

Maven provides a tag dependencyManagement for this purpose. You can add the bom information in this tag as follows:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<project
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    ...
    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.atomist</groupId>
                <artifactId>atomist-bom</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0-m.3</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>

You can build, test, and install the project locally with maven.

$ mvn install

To create a new release of the project, simply push a tag of the form M.N.P where M, N, and P are integers that form the next appropriate semantic version for release. For example:

$ git tag -a 1.2.3

The Travis CI build will automatically create a GitHub release using the tag name for the release and the comment provided on the annotated tag as the contents of the release notes. It will also automatically upload the needed artifacts.