How to get rid of maven snapshot versions

I have been using maven for a while now. But I've never learnt how to get rid of the snapshot version.

Please share some articles on how to do a release of the artifacts. i.e. how do I publish my 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT versions to (say) 1.0.0

From stackoverflow

• Use the mvn:release plugin.

  mvn release:prepare
  mvn release:perform
  

  That's about all you need to do, in the general case. See here for the more complete documentation.