[maven-release-plugin] prepare release druid-0.18.0-rc2
diff --git a/benchmarks/pom.xml b/benchmarks/pom.xml
index d42fd3a..f7d9251 100644
--- a/benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
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diff --git a/cloud/aws-common/pom.xml b/cloud/aws-common/pom.xml
index 15886e1..915c098 100644
--- a/cloud/aws-common/pom.xml
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diff --git a/cloud/gcp-common/pom.xml b/cloud/gcp-common/pom.xml
index 018b243..91747ff 100644
--- a/cloud/gcp-common/pom.xml
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diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 5a7824f..83830d6 100644
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diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index 5491fa0..ba6e96e 100644
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diff --git a/extendedset/pom.xml b/extendedset/pom.xml
index cb82eec..fb2bf6c 100755
--- a/extendedset/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/ambari-metrics-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/ambari-metrics-emitter/pom.xml
index 68709d1..c1eff7d 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/cassandra-storage/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/cassandra-storage/pom.xml
index f7da602..0588433 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/cloudfiles-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/cloudfiles-extensions/pom.xml
index a3b05d9..94be2a3 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/distinctcount/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/distinctcount/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/dropwizard-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/dropwizard-emitter/pom.xml
index 049730f..8e685e9 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/graphite-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/graphite-emitter/pom.xml
index 2e2b307..396ba76 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/influx-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/influx-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/influxdb-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/influxdb-emitter/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/kafka-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/kafka-emitter/pom.xml
index ff4c288..b911633 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/materialized-view-maintenance/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/materialized-view-maintenance/pom.xml
index 2feaae2..6128d2f 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/materialized-view-selection/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/materialized-view-selection/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/momentsketch/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/momentsketch/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/moving-average-query/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/moving-average-query/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/opentsdb-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/opentsdb-emitter/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/redis-cache/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/redis-cache/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/sqlserver-metadata-storage/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/sqlserver-metadata-storage/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/statsd-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/statsd-emitter/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/avro-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/avro-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/azure-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/azure-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/datasketches/pom.xml b/extensions-core/datasketches/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/druid-basic-security/pom.xml b/extensions-core/druid-basic-security/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/druid-bloom-filter/pom.xml b/extensions-core/druid-bloom-filter/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/druid-kerberos/pom.xml b/extensions-core/druid-kerberos/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/druid-pac4j/pom.xml b/extensions-core/druid-pac4j/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/ec2-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/ec2-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/google-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/google-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/hdfs-storage/pom.xml b/extensions-core/hdfs-storage/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/kafka-indexing-service/pom.xml b/extensions-core/kafka-indexing-service/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/kinesis-indexing-service/pom.xml b/extensions-core/kinesis-indexing-service/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/lookups-cached-global/pom.xml b/extensions-core/lookups-cached-global/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/lookups-cached-single/pom.xml b/extensions-core/lookups-cached-single/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/mysql-metadata-storage/pom.xml b/extensions-core/mysql-metadata-storage/pom.xml
index 1e8674c..3c2ba46 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-core/orc-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/orc-extensions/pom.xml
index 7b82ece..37eedc3 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-core/parquet-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/parquet-extensions/pom.xml
index 20074e9..8dbcbaf 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-core/postgresql-metadata-storage/pom.xml b/extensions-core/postgresql-metadata-storage/pom.xml
index fe404ad..e36c87f 100644
--- a/extensions-core/postgresql-metadata-storage/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/protobuf-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/protobuf-extensions/pom.xml
index 99a1af3..b9972fc 100644
--- a/extensions-core/protobuf-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/s3-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-core/s3-extensions/pom.xml
index c28500d..ae3f86a 100644
--- a/extensions-core/s3-extensions/pom.xml
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
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diff --git a/extensions-core/simple-client-sslcontext/pom.xml b/extensions-core/simple-client-sslcontext/pom.xml
index 605d132..1dfc4fb 100644
--- a/extensions-core/simple-client-sslcontext/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-core/stats/pom.xml b/extensions-core/stats/pom.xml
index 5b9ce81..a02a3db 100644
--- a/extensions-core/stats/pom.xml
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diff --git a/hll/pom.xml b/hll/pom.xml
index 83a630e..170bada 100644
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     <artifactId>druid-hll</artifactId>
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/pom.xml b/indexing-hadoop/pom.xml
index c281345..c4e9cfe 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/pom.xml
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diff --git a/indexing-service/pom.xml b/indexing-service/pom.xml
index 9db7068..bf6f44e 100644
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diff --git a/integration-tests/pom.xml b/integration-tests/pom.xml
index cc41c03..aeb9098 100644
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2dd1bb5..4f2c226 100644
--- a/pom.xml
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
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diff --git a/processing/pom.xml b/processing/pom.xml
index c49e9fa..d0c09ca 100644
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
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diff --git a/server/pom.xml b/server/pom.xml
index 7dbe8c7..0079581 100644
--- a/server/pom.xml
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
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diff --git a/services/pom.xml b/services/pom.xml
index 4df559a..caf5d04 100644
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diff --git a/sql/pom.xml b/sql/pom.xml
index 677be92..aa0f58e 100644
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diff --git a/web-console/pom.xml b/web-console/pom.xml
index 1863d51..ff7ef12 100644
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