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new 6744277e5 RAT-530: Update docs after 0.18 is out
6744277e5 is described below
commit 6744277e528f8e7c7c97cdb1f51fc704ff734825
Author: P. Ottlinger <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 20 15:45:35 2026 +0100
RAT-530: Update docs after 0.18 is out
---
README.md | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 712abdaeb..2e24bee33 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Have a look in [WHISKER's buildtools
folder](https://github.com/apache/creadur-w
### No site can be generated - build failure during javadoc generation
-Due to problems when generating Javadoc do only use JDK16! Newer versions
cannot generate the project's javadoc and run into an NPE during path
traversal. This is documented in
[RAT-497](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-497) und reported upstream
as a JDK bug.
+Due to problems when generating Javadoc do only use >=JDK21! Newer versions
cannot generate the project's javadoc and run into an NPE during path
traversal. This is documented in
[RAT-497](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-497) und reported upstream
as a JDK bug.
### Keeping release artifacts locally
@@ -86,13 +86,15 @@ As a workaround copy these files into your local .m2
repository as a deployment
$ mvn site:site site:stage
```
+or use the script under .buildtools to generate the site from the release tag:
+
### Building the webpage for releases/release candidates
-Generate the webpage from the release tag, e.g. RAT 0.17:
+Generate the webpage from the release tag, e.g. RAT 0.18:
```
$ cd creadur-rat
-$ git checkout apache-rat-project-0.17
+$ git checkout apache-rat-project-0.18
$ .buildtools/generateStagingSiteInWebpageRepo
OR
$ mvn site:site site:stage
@@ -103,7 +105,7 @@ Verify contents under target/staging:
Make sure to manually verify download pages as they need to reference the
current release and future SNAPSHOT versions!
```
-$ git commit -am "Push new preview version of RAT 0.17"
+$ git commit -am "Push new preview version of RAT 0.18"
```
### RAT-306: Fix errors in release notes
