diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index da5d93c..9678f55 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-    <parent>
-        <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
-        <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>4</version>
-    </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
     <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
     <version>1.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
     <name>SnakeYAML</name>
     <description>YAML 1.1 parser and emitter for Java</description>
     <inceptionYear>2008</inceptionYear>
@@ -143,6 +141,34 @@
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>jar</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <links>
+                        <link>http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/</link>
+                    </links>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>jar</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.mycila.maven-license-plugin</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-license-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
@@ -227,4 +253,46 @@
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </reporting>
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>release</id>
+            <activation>
+                <property>
+                    <name>performRelease</name>
+                    <value>true</value>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <build>
+                <plugins>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>1.0-alpha-4</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                                <phase>verify</phase>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>sign</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                </plugins>
+            </build>
+            <distributionManagement>
+                <repository>
+                    <id>oss.sonatype.org-releases</id>
+                    <name>OSSRH Release Repository</name>
+                    <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
+                </repository>
+                <snapshotRepository>
+                    <id>oss.sonatype.org-snapshots</id>
+                    <name>OSSRH Snapshot Repository</name>
+                    <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
+                    <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
+                </snapshotRepository>
+            </distributionManagement>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index edb40cf..21cea00 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
 	</properties>
 	<body>
 	      <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="in Mercurial" description="development">
-            <action dev="py4fun" type="update">
-                Use oss-parent POM from Sonatype (2010-08-17)
-            </action>
             <action dev="py4fun" type="remove">
                 Cleanup unused code in deprecated Loader and Dumper (2010-08-13)
             </action>