Use the Versions Maven Plugin. Rules are configured in version-rules.xml.

./mvnw versions:use-latest-releases

./mvnw release:prepare -DreleaseVersion=0.16.0 -DdevelopmentVersion=0.16.1-SNAPSHOT
./mvnw release:perform -DreleaseVersion=0.16.0 -DdevelopmentVersion=0.16.1-SNAPSHOT

release:prepare does Github tags and commits, while release:perform signs the artifacts and uploads them to the staging repositoring on https://oss.sonatype.org.

After that, manually verify the uploaded artifacts on https://oss.sonatype.org/#stagingRepositories, click Close to trigger Sonatype's verification, and then Release.

Note: We release only the parent module and the modules starting with simpleclient. Currently, we manually remove the benchmark and integration test modules. Todo: Instead of manually removing these modules, we should reconfigure the build to make sure that these modules aren't released.