diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 144b742..f9b4d7c 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -299,6 +299,16 @@
          <url>scp://people.apache.org/www/struts.apache.org</url>
       </site>
    </distributionManagement>
+   <build>
+      <plugins>
+         <plugin>
+            <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>2.0-beta-7</version>
+            <configuration>
+               <releaseProfiles>release</releaseProfiles>
+               <goals>deploy</goals>
+            </configuration>
+         </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+   </build>
 </project>
-
-