[maven-release-plugin] prepare release jclouds-1.5.0-alpha.5
diff --git a/all/pom.xml b/all/pom.xml
index 4815115..ab74e2a 100644
--- a/all/pom.xml
+++ b/all/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/allblobstore/pom.xml b/allblobstore/pom.xml
index 42485ce..497bd0f 100644
--- a/allblobstore/pom.xml
+++ b/allblobstore/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/allcompute/pom.xml b/allcompute/pom.xml
index 907098c..3f0de43 100644
--- a/allcompute/pom.xml
+++ b/allcompute/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/allloadbalancer/pom.xml b/allloadbalancer/pom.xml
index 8d1e2fa..ea452ca 100644
--- a/allloadbalancer/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/antcontrib/pom.xml b/antcontrib/pom.xml
index 9d0a617..977764d 100644
--- a/antcontrib/pom.xml
+++ b/antcontrib/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/atmos/pom.xml b/apis/atmos/pom.xml
index 9ec2016..5c6febc 100644
--- a/apis/atmos/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/byon/pom.xml b/apis/byon/pom.xml
index 92c9dc0..fafb127 100644
--- a/apis/byon/pom.xml
+++ b/apis/byon/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/cloudfiles/pom.xml b/apis/cloudfiles/pom.xml
index 0b1ef22..e473d97 100644
--- a/apis/cloudfiles/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/cloudloadbalancers/pom.xml b/apis/cloudloadbalancers/pom.xml
index 8f96a0b..f822a36 100644
--- a/apis/cloudloadbalancers/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/cloudservers/pom.xml b/apis/cloudservers/pom.xml
index c10f227..347b31f 100644
--- a/apis/cloudservers/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/cloudsigma/pom.xml b/apis/cloudsigma/pom.xml
index e44d5ac..686ef93 100644
--- a/apis/cloudsigma/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/cloudstack/pom.xml b/apis/cloudstack/pom.xml
index f74c2df..e8a8d55 100644
--- a/apis/cloudstack/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/cloudwatch/pom.xml b/apis/cloudwatch/pom.xml
index b4a6dc0..6418a34 100644
--- a/apis/cloudwatch/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/deltacloud/pom.xml b/apis/deltacloud/pom.xml
index 66a6e53..a877bce 100644
--- a/apis/deltacloud/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/apis/ec2/pom.xml b/apis/ec2/pom.xml
index 8743d79..501feec 100644
--- a/apis/ec2/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/elasticstack/pom.xml b/apis/elasticstack/pom.xml
index 78644e8..5f4aed1 100644
--- a/apis/elasticstack/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/eucalyptus/pom.xml b/apis/eucalyptus/pom.xml
index 562747c..8b35fbb 100644
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diff --git a/apis/filesystem/pom.xml b/apis/filesystem/pom.xml
index ff342df..6aed628 100644
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diff --git a/apis/nova/pom.xml b/apis/nova/pom.xml
index a5f15a2..5ad8865 100644
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diff --git a/apis/openstack-nova-ec2/pom.xml b/apis/openstack-nova-ec2/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/openstack-nova/pom.xml b/apis/openstack-nova/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/pom.xml b/apis/pom.xml
index b45bd1a..d07c29a 100644
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diff --git a/apis/s3/pom.xml b/apis/s3/pom.xml
index 821775e..b86c27c 100644
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diff --git a/apis/swift/pom.xml b/apis/swift/pom.xml
index 30a3356..112b5ae 100644
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diff --git a/apis/vcloud/pom.xml b/apis/vcloud/pom.xml
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diff --git a/apis/walrus/pom.xml b/apis/walrus/pom.xml
index 95dbf41..3203104 100644
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diff --git a/archetypes/compute-service-archetype/pom.xml b/archetypes/compute-service-archetype/pom.xml
index 112c7cf..02200c1 100644
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diff --git a/archetypes/pom.xml b/archetypes/pom.xml
index 206000d..d27c008 100644
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diff --git a/archetypes/rest-client-archetype/pom.xml b/archetypes/rest-client-archetype/pom.xml
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diff --git a/assemblies/pom.xml b/assemblies/pom.xml
index c575dfb..9c1b467 100644
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diff --git a/blobstore/pom.xml b/blobstore/pom.xml
index 892e184..fc6aae6 100644
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diff --git a/common/aws/pom.xml b/common/aws/pom.xml
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diff --git a/common/azure/pom.xml b/common/azure/pom.xml
index 8965dd4..f677fce 100644
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diff --git a/common/openstack/pom.xml b/common/openstack/pom.xml
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diff --git a/common/pom.xml b/common/pom.xml
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diff --git a/common/trmk/pom.xml b/common/trmk/pom.xml
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diff --git a/compute/pom.xml b/compute/pom.xml
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diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
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diff --git a/drivers/apachehc/pom.xml b/drivers/apachehc/pom.xml
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diff --git a/drivers/bouncycastle/pom.xml b/drivers/bouncycastle/pom.xml
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diff --git a/drivers/enterprise/pom.xml b/drivers/enterprise/pom.xml
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diff --git a/drivers/gae/pom.xml b/drivers/gae/pom.xml
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