diff --git a/distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml b/distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
index a3bbbeb..276b8a8 100644
--- a/distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
+++ b/distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
   	</dependencySet>
   </dependencySets>
   <fileSets>
+  	  <fileSet>
+      	<directory>../..</directory>
+      	<includes>
+      		<include>release_notes.md</include>
+      	</includes>
+      	<outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
+      </fileSet>
       <fileSet>
       	<directory>target/bin</directory>
       	<outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/release/release_notes.txt b/distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/release/release_notes.txt
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-
-Release Notes - CXF Distributed OSGi - Version 1.6.0
-====================================================
-
-** Bug
-    * [DOSGI-11] - dOSGi creates new databinding instance instead of using a spring-loaded databinding if available
-    * [DOSGI-196] - Greeter demo does not work in standalone Felix
-    * [DOSGI-198] - Imported service is gone after client bundle is restarted
-    * [DOSGI-206] - Parse errors for xml files in discovery local and dsw
-    * [DOSGI-207] - Update karaf maven plugin to release version
-    * [DOSGI-208] - OSGi compendium bundle installed by feature causes problems
-    * [DOSGI-210] - Service registration and memory leaks
-
-** Improvement
-    * [DOSGI-201] - Create DSOGi distro from karaf feature file
-    * [DOSGI-202] - Make DOSGi independent of jdom
-    * [DOSGI-203] - Upgrade to cxf 2.7.6
-    * [DOSGI-204] - Update osgi spec version to 4.3.1 and felix to 4.2.1
-    * [DOSGI-205] - Upgrade to pax exam 3.2
-
-** Task
-    * [DOSGI-212] - Update CXF version to 2.7.8
-
-
-Release Notes - CXF Distributed OSGi - Version 1.5.0
-====================================================
-
-** Bug
-    * [DOSGI-158] - NPE on shutdown of DOSGi service
-    * [DOSGI-160] - RemoteServiceAdmin shuts itself down during startup
-    * [DOSGI-161] - services sometimes don't get exported
-    * [DOSGI-162] - Compilation errors when using OSGi core
-    * 4.3.0/4.3.1/5.0.0
-    * [DOSGI-164] - NullPointerException on export
-    * [DOSGI-165] - exported service is not properly closed and cannot be
-    * restarted
-    * [DOSGI-166] - List can not be used to register CXF providers with DSW
-    * [DOSGI-168] - RemoteServiceAdminCore service parameters handling bugs
-    * [DOSGI-172] - o.a.c.d.discovery.zookeeper package classes are not
-    * properly synchronized
-    * [DOSGI-173] - unregistering an exported service does not remove it
-    * from zookeeper (and remote clients)
-    * [DOSGI-174] - synchronization issues and resource leaks in
-    * TopologyManagerImport and related classes
-    * [DOSGI-175] - TopologyManagerImport's reference counter doesn't count
-    * [DOSGI-176] - zookeeper discovery sending multiple duplicate endpoint
-    * notifications
-    * [DOSGI-177] - stopped services still appear as available to clients
-    * [DOSGI-180] - CXF service does not disappear if exporting bundle is
-    * stopped
-    * [DOSGI-188] - services aren't re-imported after RemoteServiceAdmin
-    * restart
-    * [DOSGI-190] - NodeExistsException and missing endpoint after ZooKeeper
-    * is restarted
-    * [DOSGI-191] - ZooKeeperDiscovery instance reconnects to ZooKeeper
-    * after bundle is stopped
-    * [DOSGI-192] - Upgrade to zookeeper 3.3.2 to fix bug with zk event
-    * thread shutdown
-    * [DOSGI-195] - Exceptions in tests: ClassCastException on
-    * SpringBusFactory
-
-** Improvement
-    * [DOSGI-167] - Upgrade Aries to the 1.x version for distro
-    * [DOSGI-170] - Remove single bundle distro
-    * [DOSGI-181] - Reactivate or delete old systests
-    * [DOSGI-184] - Split Endpoint repository from TopologyManagerExport
-    * [DOSGI-193] - Split discovery.zookeeper package into subpackages
-
-
-Release Notes - CXF Distributed OSGi - Version 1.4.0
-====================================================
-
-** Bug
-    * [DOSGI-10] - Spring schema handling (intents) doesn't work properly
-    * for the single-bundle case
-    * [DOSGI-18] - RESTful Proxies can not be created in multibundle DOSGI
-    * distributions 
-    * [DOSGI-63] - The discovery can be used be used before the connection
-    * to the server is completely established
-    * [DOSGI-69] - CXF-DOSGi requires internet access when reading XML
-    * [DOSGI-90] - Do not use/assume that endpoint.id is an address
-    * [DOSGI-92] - Exception : Applying intent: SOAP via binding config
-    * [DOSGI-109] - NullPointerException in ToloplogyManager during bundle
-    * stop
-    * [DOSGI-110] - Unable to export multiple services
-    * [DOSGI-111] - DOSGi bundle attempts to load WSDL using wrong bundle in
-    * WSDL-first configuration 
-    * [DOSGI-113] - Integration with pax-logging not possible
-    * [DOSGI-114] - RemoteServiceAdmin is not available warnings in DOSGi
-    * 1.3
-    * [DOSGI-116] - Build fails when downloading Zookeeper artifacts
-    * [DOSGI-119] - Single bundle activator fails to stop all the bundles if
-    * one of the activators throws an exception
-    * [DOSGI-120] - NullPointerException on export
-    * [DOSGI-121] - Fix logging: System.out prints, printStackTrace, verbose
-    * logs
-    * [DOSGI-123] - ZooKeeper registrations are not recreated on ZooKeeper
-    * server restart
-    * [DOSGI-125] - The dead lock in TopologyManagerImport
-    * [DOSGI-129] - NPE when stopping a bundle that exports a DOSGI service
-    * [DOSGI-135] - Switch logging api to slf4j
-    * [DOSGI-136] - Refactor zookeeper server and add metatype config
-    * [DOSGI-137] - Possible bug in TopologyManagerImport when checking if
-    * an Endpoint is already imported
-    * [DOSGI-142] - Upgrade CXF to 2.7.0
-    * [DOSGI-145] - Multiple services using HTTP Service and published from
-    * the same bundle do not work 
-    * [DOSGI-150] - Update to Java 1.6
-    * [DOSGI-153] - Error starting greeter sample in karaf 2.3.0 in aegis
-    * setup: ExceptionInInitializerError ... failed to create an
-    * XPathFactory for the default object model:
-    * http://java.sun.com/jaxp/xpath/dom
-    * [DOSGI-154] - Problems with api packages since update to cxf 2.7.2
-
-** Improvement
-    * [DOSGI-70] - Reconnect automatically to Zookeeper after a connection
-    * loss / timeout
-    * [DOSGI-86] - Decouple DOSGi DSW from Spring DM.
-    * [DOSGI-126] - Allow to use the servlet transport with automatic
-    * discovery
-    * [DOSGI-127] - Default address for services should use the servlet
-    * transport
-    * [DOSGI-128] - Allow to use JAXWS/JAXB service without frontend and
-    * databinding properties
-    * [DOSGI-130] - Clean up unused code and fix warnings, use interfaces
-    * where possible in DSW
-    * [DOSGI-131] - Switch slf4j from springsource bundles to org.slf4j,
-    * update slf4j version
-    * [DOSGI-132] - Switch logging at runtime to pax logging
-    * [DOSGI-133] - Create a Karaf feature file for CXF DOSGi
-    * [DOSGI-134] - Refactoring of TopologyManager
-    * [DOSGI-138] - Refactoring of discovery distributed
-    * [DOSGI-139] - Refactor dsw-cxf to remove dep cycles
-    * [DOSGI-141] - ZooKeeper is not support cluster (ensemble) mode
-    * [DOSGI-143] - Remove all repos except for apache snapshot and central
-    * [DOSGI-146] - Allow to define intents as OSGi services
-    * [DOSGI-147] - Deprecate some Constants that are defined in the spec
-    * [DOSGI-148] - Refactoring of dsw ConfigTypeHandlers
-    * [DOSGI-149] - Optimize distributions and karaf feature
-
-** New Feature
-    * [DOSGI-115] - Use Spring DM and Eclipse Gemini Blueprint with DOSGi
-
-Apache CXF Distributed OSGi 1.3.1 Release Notes
-===============================================
-
-Fixes needed in order to pass the OSGi 4.3 Remote Service Admin TCK.
-* Fixed exports from Single Bundle Distro
-* Fixed deadlock
-* Fixed cleanup
-* Fixed ExportReferenceImpl.equals() and hashCode()
-* Fixed RemoteServiceAdminCore.exportService()
-
-Apache CXF Distributed OSGi 1.3 Release Notes
-=============================================
-
-The following modules have been removed from the destribution:
-
-* org.apache.cxf.dosgi:cxf-dosgi-ri-discovery-distributed-zookeeper-wrapper
-
-  Zookeeper 3.3.1 bundle is now available. See DOSGI-100 for more information.
-
-* org.apache.cxf.dosgi:cxf-dosgi-remote-service-admin-interfaces
-
-  org.osgi:org.osgi.enterprize:4.2.0 artifact is now available. See DOSGI-104 for more information.
-
-Many dependencies have been updated, including the update to CXF 2.5.1. See also DOSGI-96.
-
-Additionally, a number of bugs has been fixed including:
-
-DOSGI-108   service.exported.interfaces doesn't support comma-seperated String value
-DOSGI-107   Support for a 'wsdl' configuration type
-DOSGI-105   Update greeter_rest demo to use OSGI HttpService
-DOSGI-103   Improve multi-bundle distro configuration for Felix
-DOSGI-102   DOSGI RI can not map invocation exceptions to custom exceptions on the client side
-DOSGI-97    Automatically unregister HTTP servlets/resources if exported service goes down
-DOSGI-94    Enhancement to deal with registered services that might have been proxied
-DOSGI-91    DOSGI RS Proxies ignore ResponseExceptionMapper providers
-DOSGI-85    Unable to export services started after Topology manager
-DOSGI-82    Populate custom servicename, portname and targetnamespace for jax-ws
-DOSGI-79    RemoteServiceAdmin.getImportedEndpoints() returns collection of incorrect type
-DOSGI-77    NullPointerException from Distributed OSGI when bundle with wanted properties is started.
-DOSGI-76    EndpointListener.endpointRemoved
-DOSGI-75    CXF Distributed OSGi isn't using org.apache.cxf.common.logging.LogUtils
-
-
-Apache CXF Distributed OSGi 1.2 Release Notes
-=============================================
-
-In addition to providing the Reference Implementation to the OSGi Remote
-Services Specification, the CXF Distributed OSGi 1.2 release now also
-provides the Reference Implementation of the OSGi Remote Service Admin
-Specification version 1.0, Chapter 122 in the OSGi Enterprise
-Specification.
-
-To achieve compliance with the RSA specification a major refactoring has
-been done on the code base.
-
-For the new features applicable to the RSA specification, see chapter
-122 in the OSGi Enterprise Spec (http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release4V42).
-
-The following new features have been introduced:
-
-* org.apache.cxf.ws.port=[port number]
-  This configuration property can be used to change the default port
-  at which a remote service appears. When setting this property the
-  default context will still be used.
-
-* Servlet Filters (javax.servlet.Filter) can now be registered as OSGi
-  services with the "org.apache.cxf.httpservice.filter" boolean
-  property set to true and used to secure DOSGi server endpoints.
-  Endpoints can enforce the registration of the filters by setting an
-  "org.apache.cxf.httpservice.requirefilter" boolean property to true
-
-Additionally, a number of bugs has been fixed including:
-
-[DOSGI-13] - The CXF DOSGi implementation needs to be updated to support the
-             latest OSGi Remote Services Admin spec.
-[DOSGI-24] - org.apache.cxf.dosgi.dsw.ClassUtils#getInterfaceClass() method
-             should search through super class interfaces too
-[DOSGI-25] - FileNotFoundException when client-side proxy is being created
-             [META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml]
-[DOSGI-27] - Discovery problem when two dependent bundles export interfaces
-[DOSGI-28] - Consuming more than 1 service using Spring-DM doesn't work
-[DOSGI-29] - Exception when stopping DOSGi bundle
-[DOSGI-30] - ClassNotFoundException when exposing service.
-[DOSGI-31] - Distributed OSGi having a problem with a custom type method
-             argument
-[DOSGI-32] - The default amount of logging should be significantly reduced
-[DOSGI-33] - Exception when exposing remote service using DOSGi
-[DOSGI-34] - org.apache.servicemix.specs.locator-1.1.1.jar useless?
-[DOSGI-35] - ServicePublication.PROP_KEY_ENDPOINT_LOCATION is now a URI,
-             instead of a URL
-[DOSGI-37] - Fix the dependency on Equinox for the DOSGi system tests
-[DOSGI-38] - single-bundle distribution has incorrect Import-Package and
-             Export-Package declaration in the manifest
-[DOSGI-40] - Remoted service fails to register endpoint after framework is
-             restarted
-[DOSGI-41] - Remove simple-pojo demo (temporarily) as its currently not
-             supported
-[DOSGI-43] - ClassCastException with Declarative Services
-[DOSGI-44] - Existing OSGi Services are not remoted when CXF-DOSGi is started
-[DOSGI-50] - Need to automatically infer SOAP/HTTP transport intents if not
-             explicily set via osgi.remote.requires.intents
-[DOSGI-54] - RemoteServiceAdmin interfaces/classes out of sync with official
-             version
-[DOSGI-61] - The Zookeeper Discovery only supports primitive types as service
-             properties
-[DOSGI-62] - The DSW creates endpoints with localhost URLs
-[DOSGI-66] - The DSW only loads the intent map when certain spring bundles
-             are loaded and started upfront
-[DOSGI-67] - Enable filters on DOSGi endpoints
-[DOSGI-72] - DOSGI not working with HTTP Service
-[DOSGI-74] - Update CXF version to 2.2.9
-
-
-Apache CXF Distributed OSGi 1.1 Release Notes
-=============================================
-
-Specific issues, features, and improvements fixed in this version
------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The Distributed OSGi 1.1 release provides the Reference Implementation
-of the Remote Services Specification version 1.0. Chapter 13 in the OSGi
-Compendium Specification (http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release4V42).
-
-New features in this release include:
-
-* A live Discovery System is now supported. The CXF-DOSGi implementation
-  makes use of Apache Zookeeper (http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper) as
-  the Discovery Server and provides client-side bundles for transparent
-  interaction with Zookeeper. See the Discovery Documentation pages
-  (http://cxf.apache.org/dosgi-discovery.html) for more details.
-
-* REST support for JAX-RS-based Remoted Services and Consumers through
-  the org.apache.cxf.rs configuration type.
-
-* Many user issues have been addressed. In addition the following bugs
-  have been fixed:
-
-[CXF-2182] - Exceptions when remoting pre-existing service
-[CXF-2337] - org.apache.cxf.dosgi.dsw.ClassUtils#getInterfaceClass() method
-             should search through super class interfaces too
-[CXF-2435] - Distributed OSGi having a problem with a custom type method
-             argument
-[CXF-2288] - Bundle cannot be restarted
-[CXF-2385] - Discovery doesn't fully translate 'localhost' into a proper
-             machine name
-[CXF-2200] - Consuming more than 1 service using Spring-DM doesn't work
-
-
-Known limitations :
-
-* Schema validation can not be done for JAX-RS-based endpoints which use
-  Aegis databinding