Waiting for review / merge: https://github.com/mockito/mockito-release-tools/pull/103 Fix seems fine to me. Have not executed it locally though. I don't know if this is related, but the release process currently [fails](https://travis-ci.org/mockito/mockito/jobs/230865593#L796) with:
> remote: Invalid username or password.

on a git push. It is sadly unrelated. It seems that @szczepiq password was reset for some reason :sob:  There is something weird going on with GitHub auth tokens. They seem to be expiring or something. I've tested locally a new token, updated Travis configuration and restarted Travis Job. We'll see if it helps. It was fixed!
Release automation endless loop issue
Recently I introduced a problem (PR: https://github.com/mockito/mockito/pull/1057) that created endless loop with our releases. Fallout / clean up needed:
 - [x] - stop the endless loop by reverting the commit. Thank you @TimvdLippe spotting the issue and reverting the change!
 - [x] - remove unnecessary tags
 - [x] - discard versions/artifacts that were pushed to Bintray (not "published" yet, safe to delete)
 - [x] - delete unnecessary content from [release notes file](https://github.com/mockito/mockito/blob/release/2.x/doc/release-notes/official.md)
 - [x] - fix the bug in release automation code, pr submitted, waiting for review & merge: https://github.com/mockito/mockito-release-tools/pull/103
 - [x] - test & reapply PR #1057
gradle.properties
gradle.properties
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index efadf69c1a..6d27b51dde 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ org.gradle.daemon=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 
 #Declared the dependency here to avoid duplication across build.gradle files
-dependencies.mockito-release-tools=gradle.plugin.org.mockito:mockito-release-tools:0.8.0
+dependencies.mockito-release-tools=gradle.plugin.org.mockito:mockito-release-tools:0.8.1
