diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 845736fd..306829ef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 		<dist.name>Spring AMQP</dist.name>
 		<dist.key>AMQP</dist.key>
 		<dist.version>${project.version}</dist.version>
-		<dist.releaseType>snapshot</dist.releaseType>
 		<dist.finalName>${dist.id}-${dist.version}</dist.finalName>
 		<dist.fileName>${dist.finalName}.zip</dist.fileName>
 		<dist.filePath>target/${dist.fileName}</dist.filePath>
@@ -221,18 +220,18 @@
 					<execution>
 						<id>upload-dist</id>
 						<phase>deploy</phase>
-						<configuration>
-							<tasks>
-								<ant antfile="${basedir}/src/ant/upload-dist.xml">
-									<target name="upload-dist" />
-								</ant>
-							</tasks>
-						</configuration>
 						<goals>
 							<goal>run</goal>
 						</goals>
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
+				<configuration>
+				  <tasks>
+					<ant antfile="${basedir}/src/ant/upload-dist.xml">
+					  <target name="upload-dist" />
+					</ant>
+				  </tasks>
+				</configuration>
 				<dependencies>
 					<dependency>
 						<groupId>org.springframework.build</groupId>
diff --git a/src/ant/upload-dist.xml b/src/ant/upload-dist.xml
index 2b117259..be958eb5 100644
--- a/src/ant/upload-dist.xml
+++ b/src/ant/upload-dist.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <project name="upload-dist-tasks">
 
-<!-- can be run independent of maven as follows
+<!-- can be run independent of maven as follows (but it's easier
+	 to simply use "mvn antrun:run"):
    - classpath must be uncommented below. when run from maven,
    - the classpath is set up for you
 
@@ -9,7 +10,6 @@ ant -f src/ant/upload-dist.xml \
     -Ddist.id=spring-amqp \
     -Ddist.name='Spring AMQP' \
     -Ddist.key=AMQP \
-    -Ddist.releaseType=milestone \
     -Ddist.accessKey=<access key> \
     -Ddist.secretKey=<secret key> \
     -Ddist.bucketName=dist.springframework.org \
@@ -30,7 +30,15 @@ ant -f src/ant/upload-dist.xml \
         </classpath>
         -->
     </taskdef>
-	<target name="upload-dist" depends="upload-s3,upload-staging"/>
+	<target name="upload-dist" depends="upload-prep,upload-s3,upload-staging"/>
+	<target name="upload-prep">
+	  <condition property="dist.releaseType" value="snapshot">
+		<contains string="${dist.version}" substring="snapshot" casesensitive="false"/>
+	  </condition>
+	  <condition property="dist.releaseType" value="release" else="milestone">
+		<contains string="${dist.version}" substring="release" casesensitive="false"/>
+	  </condition>
+	</target>
     <target name="upload-s3" unless="dist.staging">
         <checksum file="${dist.filePath}" algorithm="sha1"/>
         <s3 accessKey="${dist.accessKey}" secretKey="${dist.secretKey}">