diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 805dd6c..4a5dbab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,3 +7,27 @@ In this project contains a few methods to augment to Apache Arrow Flight to supp
 out-of-band client-streams for javascript clients.
 
 See documentation here: https://deephaven.io/barrage/docs/
+
+### Versioning
+This library is at its 1.0.0 release, and versioning semantics are still being worked out. FlatBuffer enables
+forward and backward compatibility for the wire format itself. As FlatBuffers does not follow SemVer, and
+every release introduces breaking compile-time and runtime changes, each time the Flatbuffers library is update,
+it will amount to a new major release.
+
+<!-- Every Flatbuffers version is technically a breaking change, so our use of semver for this project may make
+it seem as though this project sees more changes than it actually does. In reality, changes to the barrage
+wire format are quite infrequent, and always done in an attempt to be backwards compatible. As a result,
+SemVer applies specifically for using this as a library, but two endpoints can still communicate with
+different versions, though new features used by one endpoint may not be understood by an older endpoint.
+
+As such, our versioning scheme is as follows:
+```
+A.B.C
+A - Major version, incremented for breaking changes to the wire format
+  B - Minor version, incremented for backwards-compatible changes to schema
+    C - Patch version, incremented for backwards-compatible bug fixes
+```
+
+The minor version will not be reset to zero when the major version is incremented, to indicate relative compatibility
+between two major releases for schema features. That is to say that the minor version is effectively a wire format
+version. -->
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5910fcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Java Release
+
+The Java release to Maven Central uses the Sonatype's publishing service. See https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-portal-maven/
+for more information.
+
+A developer must have a GPG keypair created and uploaded to a public keyserver, as well as a Sonatype account with permissions to publish
+to the `io.deephaven` namespace.
+
+To update versions for a release, edit the pom files, or run
+```sh
+mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=x.y.z
+```
+to automatically update versions across all poms.
+
+To perform a release, run:
+
+```sh
+./mvnw clean deploy -Prelease
+```
+
+This will activate the `release` profile, which will generate javadoc and source jars and sign the artifacts before deploying to Sonatype.
+
+Snapshots can be deployed using the same steps.
diff --git a/java/barrage-core/pom.xml b/java/barrage-core/pom.xml
index 1ced905..064dc3b 100644
--- a/java/barrage-core/pom.xml
+++ b/java/barrage-core/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>io.deephaven.barrage</groupId>
     <artifactId>barrage-java-root</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/format/pom.xml b/java/format/pom.xml
index 46fbd7b..feec64c 100644
--- a/java/format/pom.xml
+++ b/java/format/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>barrage-java-root</artifactId>
     <groupId>io.deephaven.barrage</groupId>
-    <version>0.7.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>barrage-format</artifactId>
diff --git a/java/pom.xml b/java/pom.xml
index 5768aef..93b673e 100644
--- a/java/pom.xml
+++ b/java/pom.xml
@@ -17,15 +17,9 @@
 <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
-    <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
-    <version>34</version>
-  </parent>
-
   <groupId>io.deephaven.barrage</groupId>
   <artifactId>barrage-java-root</artifactId>
-  <version>0.7.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <name>Deephaven Data Labs' Barrage Java Root POM</name>
@@ -234,48 +228,6 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-
-      <!-- Release tags should be v<VERSION>. -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.5.3</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <tagNameFormat>v@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-
-      <!-- Release to OSS Sonatype / Maven Central. -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.7.0</version>
-        <extensions>true</extensions>
-        <configuration>
-          <serverId>oss.sonatype.org</serverId>
-          <nexusUrl>https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
-          <autoReleaseAfterClose>true</autoReleaseAfterClose>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-
-      <!--
-        Sign artifacts with GPG.  This is a requirement of releasing to OSS
-        Sonatype and Maven Central.
-      -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6</version>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>sign-artifacts</id>
-            <phase>verify</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>sign</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
     </plugins>
 
     <pluginManagement>
@@ -304,17 +256,6 @@
           <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>3.1.0</version>
         </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>3.0.0-M6</version>
-          <configuration>
-            <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
-            <pushChanges>false</pushChanges>
-            <goals>deploy</goals>
-            <arguments>-Papache-release ${arguments}</arguments>
-          </configuration>
-        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
   </build>
@@ -369,4 +310,67 @@
     <module>format</module>
     <module>barrage-core</module>
   </modules>
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>release</id>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <!-- Release to Sonatype staging / Maven Central. -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.sonatype.central</groupId>
+            <artifactId>central-publishing-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>0.9.0</version>
+            <extensions>true</extensions>
+            <configuration>
+              <publishingServerId>central</publishingServerId>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+
+          <!--
+            Sign artifacts with GPG.  This is a requirement of releasing to Maven Central
+          -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.6</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>3.4.0</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>attach-sources</id>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.12.0</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>attach-javadoc</id>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
 </project>