The standard taglib has a Version class that prints version of the library. It is called in this way: java -cp taglibs-standard-impl-*.jar org.apache.taglibs.standard.Version Currently the version there is hard-coded to be 1.2.0. I'll manually update it for 1.2.3 release, but it would be better to automate this process. Either a) Make it auto-generated by Maven b) Read the actual value from Implementation-Version entry of a manifest c) Remove this feature
Updated for 1.2.3 by r1658264
README_bin.txt README_src.txt files also need to be updated manually Updated manually for 1.2.3 in r1658280 and r1658281 The standard-test project specifies what version of main project it runs its tests against. Those values in standard-test/pom.xml are not updated by maven-release plugin. Updated manually for 1.2.3 in r1658266