Blocker Description
As discussed on the mailing list (will provide link soon) the javadoc generation fails on java 8. For next level complexity the release plugin also fails.
For javadocs:
mvn javadoc:javadoc
and for the more adventurous:
mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true
I'm tentatively setting fix version 1.7.0 to try to resolve this in time for the release (not sure when that is though).
reschke could you add the relevant errors here?