signatures OK for bin and source release artifacts. build from sources - OK except for an SVN build revision number issue discussed elsewhere on this thread. In my opinion, this is not a blocker, because the actual built JARs have the info in the manifest.
The new manifest entry appears to come with an extra blank line following it (it's at the end of the Manifest). I'm presuming this is not an issue - if anyone knows otherwise, please speak up :-). I did a compare of 2.0.1 rc3 with 2.0.0 rc7 (previous release). This shows no new dependencies or other possibly significant issues for review. I note that there is no difference in the license / notice files. issues fixed - OK. (A slight improvement in Jira issue recording for the future: change the Jira "type" for tasks like "Prepare xxx for release" from "bug" to "task".) There are a new set of JavaDoc warnings. These are not blockers, but might want to get fixed in subsequent releases. [X] +1 OK to release -Marshall
