diff --git a/doc/jvm/index.md b/doc/jvm/index.md
index d916cc03d..2e627ba1c 100644
--- a/doc/jvm/index.md
+++ b/doc/jvm/index.md
@@ -38,15 +38,38 @@ This command will publish the xgboost binaries, the compiled java classes as wel
 
 For sbt, please add the repository and dependency in build.sbt as following:
 
-<b>sbt</b> 
+<b>sbt</b>
 ```sbt
 resolvers += "Local Maven Repository" at "file://"+Path.userHome.absolutePath+"/.m2/repository"
 
 "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j" % "latest_source_version_num"
-``` 
+```
 
 
-#### Installation from repo
+#### Installation from maven repo
+
+### Access release version
+
+<b>maven</b>
+
+```
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
+    <artifactId>xgboost4j</artifactId>
+    <version>latest_version_num</version>
+</dependency>
+```
+
+<b>sbt</b>
+```sbt
+ "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j" % "latest_version_num"
+```
+
+For the latest release version number, please check [here](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/releases).
+
+if you want to use `xgboost4j-spark`, you just need to replace xgboost4j with `xgboost4j-spark`
+
+### Access SNAPSHOT version
 
 You need to add github as repo:
 
@@ -83,12 +106,14 @@ the add dependency as following:
  "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j" % "latest_version_num"
 ```
 
-For the latest release version number, please check [here](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/releases).
+For the latest release version number, please check [here](https://github.com/CodingCat/xgboost/tree/maven-repo/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j).
+
+if you want to use `xgboost4j-spark`, you just need to replace xgboost4j with `xgboost4j-spark`
 
 After integrating with Dataframe/Dataset APIs of Spark 2.0, XGBoost4J-Spark only supports compile with Spark 2.x. You can build XGBoost4J-Spark as a component of XGBoost4J by running `mvn package`, and you can specify the version of spark with `mvn -Dspark.version=2.0.0 package`.   (To continue working with Spark 1.x, the users are supposed to update pom.xml by modifying the properties like `spark.version`, `scala.version`, and `scala.binary.version`. Users also need to change the implementation by replacing SparkSession with SQLContext and the type of API parameters from Dataset[_] to Dataframe)
 
 #### Enabling OpenMP for  Mac OS
-If you are on Mac OS and using a compiler that supports OpenMP, you need to go to the file `xgboost/jvm-packages/create_jni.py` and comment out the line 
+If you are on Mac OS and using a compiler that supports OpenMP, you need to go to the file `xgboost/jvm-packages/create_jni.py` and comment out the line
 ```python
 CONFIG["USE_OPENMP"] = "OFF"
 ```
diff --git a/jvm-packages/README.md b/jvm-packages/README.md
index 4fef01e13..8ad70d7cf 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/README.md
+++ b/jvm-packages/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,27 @@ You can find more about XGBoost on [Documentation](https://xgboost.readthedocs.o
 
 XGBoost4J, XGBoost4J-Spark, etc. in maven repository is compiled with g++-4.8.5  
 
+### Access release version
+
+<b>maven</b> 
+
+```
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
+    <artifactId>xgboost4j</artifactId>
+    <version>latest_version_num</version>
+</dependency>
+``` 
+ 
+<b>sbt</b> 
+```sbt
+ "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j" % "latest_version_num"
+``` 
+
+For the latest release version number, please check [here](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/releases).
+
+if you want to use `xgboost4j-spark`, you just need to replace xgboost4j with `xgboost4j-spark`
+
 ### Access SNAPSHOT version
 
 You need to add github as repo:
@@ -57,7 +78,7 @@ the add dependency as following:
  "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j" % "latest_version_num"
 ``` 
 
-For the latest release version number, please check [here](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/releases).
+For the latest release version number, please check [here](https://github.com/CodingCat/xgboost/tree/maven-repo/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j).
 
 if you want to use `xgboost4j-spark`, you just need to replace xgboost4j with `xgboost4j-spark`
 
diff --git a/jvm-packages/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
index eb793d1d2..da4e90b02 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,21 @@
     <artifactId>xgboost-jvm</artifactId>
     <version>0.80-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
+    <name>XGBoost JVM Package</name>
+    <description>JVM Package for XGBoost</description>
+    <url>https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/tree/master/jvm-packages</url>
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>The Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <name>CodingCat</name>
+            <email>codingcat@apache.org</email>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
@@ -32,6 +47,80 @@
         <module>xgboost4j-flink</module>
     </modules>
     <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>release</id>
+            <build>
+                <plugins>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>3.0.2</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>empty-javadoc-jar</id>
+                                <phase>package</phase>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>jar</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                                <configuration>
+                                    <classifier>javadoc</classifier>
+                                    <classesDirectory>${basedir}/javadoc</classesDirectory>
+                                </configuration>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>2.5.3</version>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
+                            <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
+                            <releaseProfiles>release</releaseProfiles>
+                            <goals>deploy</goals>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>1.5</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                                <phase>verify</phase>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>sign</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>2.2.1</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>attach-sources</id>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>1.6.7</version>
+                        <extensions>true</extensions>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
+                            <nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+                            <autoReleaseAfterClose>false</autoReleaseAfterClose>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </plugin>
+                </plugins>
+            </build>
+        </profile>
         <profile>
             <id>assembly</id>
             <build>
@@ -111,6 +200,12 @@
             </build>
         </profile>
     </profiles>
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+    </distributionManagement>
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
@@ -136,30 +231,6 @@
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.10.3</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <excludePackageNames>
-                        ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.example
-                    </excludePackageNames>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.0.1</version>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>attach-sources</id>
-                        <phase>verify</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -181,7 +252,6 @@
                                 </jvmArgs>
                             </configuration>
                         </plugin>
-                        ...
                     </reportPlugins>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>