diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index ea84a430cf..e155a6cdc5 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-ldap</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>1.2.1</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/ldap/DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource.java b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/ldap/DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource.java
index a5b2cb7801..4a77927035 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/ldap/DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/ldap/DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource.java
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
 import javax.naming.Context;
-import javax.naming.NamingException;
 import javax.naming.directory.DirContext;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
@@ -89,27 +88,6 @@ public class DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource extends LdapContextSource implem
         }
     }
 
-    /** Copied from parent <tt>AbstractContextSource</tt> as package private */
-    DirContext createContext(Hashtable environment) {
-		DirContext ctx = null;
-
-		try {
-			ctx = getDirContextInstance(environment);
-
-			if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
-				Hashtable ctxEnv = ctx.getEnvironment();
-				String ldapUrl = (String) ctxEnv.get(Context.PROVIDER_URL);
-				logger.debug("Got Ldap context on server '" + ldapUrl + "'");
-			}
-
-			return ctx;
-		}
-		catch (NamingException e) {
-			LdapUtils.closeContext(ctx);
-			throw org.springframework.ldap.support.LdapUtils.convertLdapException(e);
-		}
-	}
-
     public void setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource) {
         this.messages = new MessageSourceAccessor(messageSource);
     }
diff --git a/ntlm/pom.xml b/ntlm/pom.xml
index 3688db8be5..0f146ccfb3 100755
--- a/ntlm/pom.xml
+++ b/ntlm/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-ldap</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>1.2.1</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a239ad976d..893cd5431f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
             <url>${siteDirectory}</url>
         </site>
     </distributionManagement>
-
+<!--
     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <id>acegisnapshots</id>
@@ -83,19 +83,13 @@
                 <enabled>false</enabled>
             </releases>
         </repository>
-        <!-- TODO: Added for spring-ldap-1.2.1-SNAPSHOT -->
-        <repository>
-            <id>acegirepo</id>
-            <name>Acegi maven repository</name>
-            <url>http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net/maven</url>
-        </repository>
         <repository>
             <id>spring-milestone</id>
             <name>Springframework Maven Milestone Repository</name>
             <url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
-
+-->
     <mailingLists>
         <mailingList>
             <name>Acegi Developer List</name>
diff --git a/releasebuild.sh b/releasebuild.sh
index a48a62ca4e..abad4d08ee 100644
--- a/releasebuild.sh
+++ b/releasebuild.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
 #
 # 1.  Do clean check out of source from svn and note revision number.
 # 2.  Switch to 1.4 JVM and run 'mvn test' from core directory.
-# 3.  Set the version number in the pom.xml files of all the module.
+# 3.  Set the version number in the pom.xml files of all the modules.
 # 3a. If doing a release rather than snapshot build, run "find . -name pom.xml | xargs grep SNAPSHOT" and make sure
 #     there are no important snapshot dependencies.
 # 3b. Set the same version number in this script.
 # 4.  Set the correct spring version number in the pom.xml.
+# 4a. Make sure there are no snapshot dependencies in the release.
+# 4b. Remove any references to external maven repositories in the parent pom.xml (remove <repositories> element).
 # 5.  Run this script to generate the artifacts and web site in the 'release' directory.
 # 6.  Copy the archives and unpack them to check the contents.
 # 7.  The archives are tar archives. Create zip versions from the contents and check the internal paths are Ok.
@@ -185,7 +187,7 @@ tar --exclude='*/.svn' -cjf $PROJECT_NAME-$RELEASE_VERSION-src.tar.bz2 notice.tx
     -C ${PROJ_DIR}/adapters/jboss/main/java org \
     -C ${PROJ_DIR}/adapters/resin/main/java org \
     -C ${PROJ_DIR}/adapters/cas/main/java org \
-    -C ${PROJ_DIR}/adapters/catalina/main/java org    
+    -C ${PROJ_DIR}/adapters/catalina/main/java org