diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 33c33702f..9a80fe916 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,22 +2,19 @@ language: scala
 
 env:
   global:
-    - PUBLISH_JDK=openjdk6 # admin/build.sh only publishes when running on this jdk
-# Don't commit sensitive files, instead commit a version encrypted with $SECRET,
-# this environment variable is encrypted with this repo's private key and stored below:
-# (See http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables/#Secure-Variables.)
-    - secure: "whJQqI/7G+kUJoCCGQYbv3Y/T2Cx3EcBKfCyvMkZaVgo0wFEOUguh8I+4QqRyf9cC/uPmzwCzV9uwXsNDMcY78jouY05A+fCEnUol/9TuF5PWmXF6Yr/UmmYoCQe4pioXsbXa4uOy18kLzE0h2sOIrJ5A9NL8/58iVgl4E3pwvk="
+    - PUBLISH_JDK=openjdk6
+    # PGP_PASSPHRASE
+    - secure: "BYC1kEnHjNrINrHYWPGEuTTJ2V340/0ByzqeihLecjoZ75yrjWdsh6MI1JEUWgv5kb+58vLzib21JfnjsPK6Yb2bSXuCFCsEtJNh6RJKgxkWlCOzfTSh5I2wl7PCjRClRL6gseX2uTSvFjL4Z//pmxwxeXlLp7voQe4QAUq1+sE="
+    # SONA_USER
+    - secure: "OpBwPc1GNvauageYOH3RscAa7wpZxgpmqDz15aigIKLNWzAhAtVUx0MleZ8rQeoqml6nrAvlnzuVHjKL2lVcjMPpjUis7bcQ5UAGK7tZK8x+qZNQxXmpXu8+pENwQA2yFaqt/xy7K5jFOrHJHTRxcPnyVG1yKakPWz53PPYUwbc="
+    # SONA_PASS
+    - secure: "Xw7rI/qlML1nD2e2XwlakkhKAWNGZKqqE+Q3ntTvFpfHryl7KLCvVzJ4LIavnL6kGJaWOgy9vlSoEWn5g9nqHSfE31C/k5pY5nTMAKiwiJzfAS+r0asKXW2gmKhwtcTBkqyLVOZLCJSPVlFRQyfBJHY+Fs0L3KWcnMQgtBlyDhU="
+
+script: admin/build.sh
 
-script:
-  - admin/build.sh
-scala:
-  - 2.11.4
 jdk:
   - openjdk6
   - openjdk7
-notifications:
-  email:
-    - adriaan.moors@typesafe.com
 
-# if we get weird timeouts, see https://github.com/spray/spray/pull/233
-# 'set concurrentRestrictions in Global += Tags.limit(Tags.Test, 1)'
+notifications:
+  email: adriaan.moors@typesafe.com
diff --git a/admin/README.md b/admin/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55ae9c8ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+## Tag Driven Releasing
+
+Copied from https://github.com/scala/scala-java8-compat/commit/4a6cfc97cd95227b86650410e1b632e5ff79335b.
+
+### Background Reading
+
+  - http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables/
+  - http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/encryption-keys/
+  - http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/encrypting-files/
+
+### Initial setup for the repository
+
+To configure tag driven releases from Travis CI.
+
+  1. Generate a key pair for this repository with `./admin/genKeyPair.sh`.
+     Edit `.travis.yml` and `admin/build.sh` as prompted.
+  2. Publish the public key to https://pgp.mit.edu
+  3. Store other secrets as encrypted environment variables with `admin/encryptEnvVars.sh`.
+     Edit `.travis.yml` as prompted.
+  4. Edit `.travis.yml` to use `./admin/build.sh` as the build script,
+     and edit that script to use the tasks required for this project.
+  5. Edit `.travis.yml` to select which JDK will be used for publishing.
+
+It is important to add comments in .travis.yml to identify the name
+of each environment variable encoded in a `:secure` section.
+
+After all of these steps, your .travis.yml should contain config of the
+form:
+
+	language: scala
+	env:
+	  global:
+	    - PUBLISH_JDK=openjdk6
+	    # PGP_PASSPHRASE
+	    - secure: "XXXXXX"
+	    # SONA_USER
+	    - secure: "XXXXXX"
+	    # SONA_PASS
+	    - secure: "XXXXXX"
+	script: admin/build.sh
+
+If Sonatype credentials change in the future, step 3 can be repeated
+without generating a new key.
+
+Be sure to use SBT 0.13.7 or higher to avoid [#1430](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1430)!
+
+### Testing
+
+  1. Follow the release process below to create a dummy release (e.g. 0.1.0-TEST1).
+     Confirm that the release was staged to Sonatype but do not release it to Maven
+     central. Instead, drop the staging repository.
+
+### Performing a release
+
+  1. Create a GitHub "Release" (with a corresponding tag) via the GitHub
+     web interface.
+  2. Travis CI will schedule a build for this release. Review the build logs.
+  3. Log into https://oss.sonatype.org/ and identify the staging repository.
+  4. Sanity check its contents
+  5. Release staging repository to Maven and send out release announcement.
+
diff --git a/admin/build.sh b/admin/build.sh
index 3c7f4b6c8..34f5ccda1 100755
--- a/admin/build.sh
+++ b/admin/build.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+set -e
+
 # prep environment for publish to sonatype staging if the HEAD commit is tagged
 
 # git on travis does not fetch tags, but we have TRAVIS_TAG
@@ -9,11 +11,15 @@ if [ "$TRAVIS_JDK_VERSION" == "$PUBLISH_JDK" ] && [[ "$TRAVIS_TAG" =~ ^v[0-9]+\.
   echo "Going to release from tag $TRAVIS_TAG!"
   myVer=$(echo $TRAVIS_TAG | sed -e s/^v//)
   publishVersion='set every version := "'$myVer'"'
-  extraTarget="publish-signed"
-
+  extraTarget="+publish-signed"
   cat admin/gpg.sbt >> project/plugins.sbt
-  admin/decrypt.sh sensitive.sbt
-  (cd admin/ && ./decrypt.sh secring.asc)
+  cp admin/publish-settings.sbt .
+
+  # Copied from the output of genKeyPair.sh
+  K=$encrypted_6b8d67feaab7_key
+  IV=$encrypted_6b8d67feaab7_iv
+
+  openssl aes-256-cbc -K $K -iv $IV -in admin/secring.asc.enc -out admin/secring.asc -d
 fi
 
-sbt ++$TRAVIS_SCALA_VERSION "$publishVersion" clean update compile test $extraTarget
\ No newline at end of file
+sbt "$publishVersion" clean update +test +publishLocal $extraTarget
diff --git a/admin/decrypt.sh b/admin/decrypt.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 3c3c602f0..000000000
--- a/admin/decrypt.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-openssl aes-256-cbc -pass "pass:$SECRET" -in $1.enc -out $1 -d -a
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/admin/encrypt.sh b/admin/encrypt.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 4bf6c9329..000000000
--- a/admin/encrypt.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-openssl aes-256-cbc -pass "pass:$SECRET" -in $1 -out $1.enc -a
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/admin/encryptAll.sh b/admin/encryptAll.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index de7016b75..000000000
--- a/admin/encryptAll.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Based on https://gist.github.com/kzap/5819745:
-
-echo "This will encrypt the cleartext sensitive.sbt and admin/secring.asc, while making the encrypted versions available for decryption on Travis."
-echo "Update your .travis.yml as directed, and delete the cleartext versions."
-echo "Press enter to continue."
-read
-
-# 1. create a secret, put it in an environment variable while encrypting files -- UNSET IT AFTER
-export SECRET=$(cat /dev/urandom | head -c 10000 | openssl sha1)
-
-# 2. add the "secure: ..." line under the env section -- generate it with ``  (install the travis gem first)
-travis encrypt SECRET=$SECRET
-
-admin/encrypt.sh admin/secring.asc
-admin/encrypt.sh sensitive.sbt
-
-echo "Remember to rm sensitive.sbt admin/secring.asc -- once you do, they cannot be recovered (except on Travis)!"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/admin/encryptEnvVars.sh b/admin/encryptEnvVars.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b62566798
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/encryptEnvVars.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Encrypt sonatype credentials so that they can be
+# decrypted in trusted builds on Travis CI.
+#
+set -e
+
+read -s -p 'SONA_USER: ' SONA_USER
+travis encrypt SONA_USER="$SONA_USER"
+read -s -p 'SONA_PASS: ' SONA_PASS
+travis encrypt SONA_PASS="$SONA_PASS"
diff --git a/admin/genKeyPair.sh b/admin/genKeyPair.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..17db3f39b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/genKeyPair.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Generates a key pair for this repository to sign artifacts.
+# Encrypt the private key and its passphrase in trusted builds
+# on Travis CI.
+#
+set -e
+
+# Based on https://gist.github.com/kzap/5819745:
+function promptDelete() {
+    if [[ -f "$1" ]]; then
+        echo About to delete $1, Enter for okay / CTRL-C to cancel
+        read
+        rm "$1"
+    fi
+}
+for f in admin/secring.asc.enc admin/secring.asc admin/pubring.asc; do promptDelete "$f"; done
+
+echo Generating key pair. Please enter 1. repo name 2. scala-internals@googlegroups.com, 3. a new passphrase
+echo Be careful when using special characters in the passphrase, see http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/encryption-keys/#Note-on-escaping-certain-symbols
+cp admin/gpg.sbt project
+sbt 'set pgpReadOnly := false' \
+    'set pgpPublicRing := file("admin/pubring.asc")' \
+    'set pgpSecretRing := file("admin/secring.asc")' \
+    'pgp-cmd gen-key'
+rm project/gpg.sbt
+
+echo ============================================================================================
+echo Encrypting admin/secring.asc. Update K and IV variables in admin/build.sh accordingly.
+echo ============================================================================================
+travis encrypt-file admin/secring.asc
+rm admin/secring.asc
+mv secring.asc.enc admin
+
+echo ============================================================================================
+echo Encrypting environment variables. Add each to a line in .travis.yml. Include a comment
+echo with the name of the corresponding variable
+echo ============================================================================================
+read -s -p 'PGP_PASSPHRASE: ' PGP_PASSPHRASE
+travis encrypt PGP_PASSPHRASE="$PGP_PASSPHRASE"
+
diff --git a/admin/gpg.sbt b/admin/gpg.sbt
index 6ec4213ea..68ae46411 100644
--- a/admin/gpg.sbt
+++ b/admin/gpg.sbt
@@ -1,21 +1,2 @@
-// only added when publishing:
-addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-pgp" % "0.8.3")
 
-/* There's a companion sensitive.sbt, which was created like this:
-
-1. in an sbt shell when sbt-gpg is loaded, create pgp key in admin/:
-
- set pgpReadOnly := false
- pgp-cmd gen-key // use $passPhrase
- pgp-cmd send-key <keyIdUsingTabCompletion> hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com
-
-2. create sensitive.sbt with contents:
-
-pgpPassphrase := Some($passPhrase.toArray)
-
-pgpPublicRing := file("admin/pubring.asc")
-
-pgpSecretRing := file("admin/secring.asc")
-
-credentials   += Credentials("Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager", "oss.sonatype.org", $sonaUser, $sonaPass)
-*/
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-pgp" % "0.8.3") // only added when publishing, see build.sh
diff --git a/admin/publish-settings.sbt b/admin/publish-settings.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f763ea06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/publish-settings.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+def env(key: String) = Option(System.getenv(key)).getOrElse("")
+
+pgpPassphrase := Some(env("PGP_PASSPHRASE").toArray)
+
+pgpPublicRing := file("admin/pubring.asc")
+
+pgpSecretRing := file("admin/secring.asc")
+
+credentials   += Credentials("Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager", "oss.sonatype.org", env("SONA_USER"), env("SONA_PASS"))
diff --git a/admin/pubring.asc b/admin/pubring.asc
index 61de5ecf0..df4501ad6 100644
--- a/admin/pubring.asc
+++ b/admin/pubring.asc
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
 Version: BCPG v1.49
 
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-MvqLaQvo0gOQ/32DEnBy0DbDu8WEDvpZzEM21eTz/VW9VDb0fbNEXoLODY+IYt+v
-ohsw0NzQV6qSk2WQVYWVuZbfZXZBT3/JoDxHKRRl/IvZb8CQkRypxKVmsud/IOsu
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-QhCuqobGMQ8Umupnejt8fIIQ/8A99sneBU+eEB8=
-=450t
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+VTTOG+T7/WwVPQQ0xQLROgWL7z5UgxHly64WClA=
+=/6/b
 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
diff --git a/admin/secring.asc.enc b/admin/secring.asc.enc
index 25ed5cc2d..626ff5d10 100644
Binary files a/admin/secring.asc.enc and b/admin/secring.asc.enc differ
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index b97e13faf..f38d0da04 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ name                       := "scala-xml"
 
 version                    := "1.0.5-SNAPSHOT"
 
-scalaVersion               := "2.11.4"
+scalaVersion               := crossScalaVersions.value.head
+
+crossScalaVersions         := Seq("2.11.6", "2.12.0-M1")
 
 // important!! must come here (why?)
 scalaModuleOsgiSettings