[maven-release-plugin] prepare release druid-26.0.0-rc3
diff --git a/benchmarks/pom.xml b/benchmarks/pom.xml
index e939c69..c0a8236 100644
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diff --git a/cloud/aws-common/pom.xml b/cloud/aws-common/pom.xml
index ce36062..9b786b1 100644
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diff --git a/cloud/gcp-common/pom.xml b/cloud/gcp-common/pom.xml
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diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/aliyun-oss-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/aliyun-oss-extensions/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 ef61ba0..23a117e 100644
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/cassandra-storage/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/cassandra-storage/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/cloudfiles-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/cloudfiles-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/compressed-bigdecimal/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/compressed-bigdecimal/pom.xml
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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
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/gce-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/gce-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/graphite-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/graphite-emitter/pom.xml
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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
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/kubernetes-overlord-extensions/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/kubernetes-overlord-extensions/pom.xml
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diff --git a/extensions-contrib/materialized-view-maintenance/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/materialized-view-maintenance/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/opentelemetry-emitter/pom.xml b/extensions-contrib/opentelemetry-emitter/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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