• Inspect maven artifacts
• Install Maven artifacts locally
• Ensure optional / provided dependencies show up correctly in poms
• Ensure dependency exclusions show up correctly in poms
• Build a sample project that depends via Maven on the newly released version
• Inspect distribution zip
• Expand archive
• Open API docs and ensure project version is correct
• Open reference docs and ensure project version is correct
• Verify 'info' docs are up to date, contain current project version, etc
• Verify OSGi manifests if appropriate