[maven-release-plugin] prepare release camel-2.9.0-RC1

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/trunk@1196404 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/apache-camel/pom.xml b/apache-camel/pom.xml
index ecd2f92..d8c39e7 100644
--- a/apache-camel/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-camel/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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diff --git a/buildingtools/pom.xml b/buildingtools/pom.xml
index 49d4ac0..1c1cc0a 100644
--- a/buildingtools/pom.xml
+++ b/buildingtools/pom.xml
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
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     <artifactId>camel-buildtools</artifactId>
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diff --git a/camel-core/pom.xml b/camel-core/pom.xml
index 348319d..9c54eff 100755
--- a/camel-core/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-ahc/pom.xml b/components/camel-ahc/pom.xml
index 15bf9fc..02b8a95 100644
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diff --git a/components/camel-amqp/pom.xml b/components/camel-amqp/pom.xml
index 7cb2ac4..c249a29 100644
--- a/components/camel-amqp/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-apns/pom.xml b/components/camel-apns/pom.xml
index 00018bd..e68cb25 100644
--- a/components/camel-apns/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-atom/pom.xml b/components/camel-atom/pom.xml
index 60aae65..cccbc22 100644
--- a/components/camel-atom/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-aws/pom.xml b/components/camel-aws/pom.xml
index 8e82cde..4ff3161 100644
--- a/components/camel-aws/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-bam/pom.xml b/components/camel-bam/pom.xml
index 9f17778..e3d51bd 100644
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diff --git a/components/camel-bean-validator/pom.xml b/components/camel-bean-validator/pom.xml
index 1c768b7..c1e2e6d 100644
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diff --git a/components/camel-bindy/pom.xml b/components/camel-bindy/pom.xml
index b604426..8b0e65e 100755
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diff --git a/components/camel-blueprint/pom.xml b/components/camel-blueprint/pom.xml
index 25c809f..a5ee808 100644
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diff --git a/components/camel-cache/pom.xml b/components/camel-cache/pom.xml
index 1527201..4365509 100755
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diff --git a/components/camel-castor/pom.xml b/components/camel-castor/pom.xml
index 1537a86..6e8665f 100644
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diff --git a/components/camel-cometd/pom.xml b/components/camel-cometd/pom.xml
index 86e834a..3329f49 100644
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diff --git a/components/camel-context/pom.xml b/components/camel-context/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-core-osgi/pom.xml b/components/camel-core-osgi/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-core-xml/pom.xml b/components/camel-core-xml/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-crypto/pom.xml b/components/camel-crypto/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-csv/pom.xml b/components/camel-csv/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-cxf-transport/pom.xml b/components/camel-cxf-transport/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-cxf/pom.xml b/components/camel-cxf/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-dns/pom.xml b/components/camel-dns/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-dozer/pom.xml b/components/camel-dozer/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-eclipse/pom.xml b/components/camel-eclipse/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-ejb/pom.xml b/components/camel-ejb/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-eventadmin/pom.xml b/components/camel-eventadmin/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-exec/pom.xml b/components/camel-exec/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-flatpack/pom.xml b/components/camel-flatpack/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-gae/pom.xml b/components/camel-gae/pom.xml
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diff --git a/components/camel-jackson/pom.xml b/components/camel-jackson/pom.xml
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