diff --git a/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/pdf/user-guide.pdf.xml b/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/pdf/user-guide.pdf.xml
index 35883ed..e133077 100644
--- a/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/pdf/user-guide.pdf.xml
+++ b/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/pdf/user-guide.pdf.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     <item name="Introduction" ref="index.html"/>
     <item name="User" ref="user/index.html"/>
     <item name="SOP Project Component Creation" ref="org.eclipse.papyrus.components.archetype/developer/sop-projectcreation.html"/>
+    <item name="SOP Component Release" ref="user/sop-release.html"/>
     <item name="SOP Add Missing License" ref="user/sop-addMissingLicense2JavaFile.html"/>
     <item name="SOP Target Platform Creation" ref="user/sop-targetPlatformUpdate.html"/>
   </toc>
diff --git a/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/index.xml b/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/index.xml
index de89ac9..997e1d2 100644
--- a/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/index.xml
+++ b/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/index.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 			<ul>
 				<li><a href="../org.eclipse.papyrus.components.archetype/user/sop-projectcreation.html">SOP Project Component Creation</a></li>
 				<li><a href="sop-targetPlatformUpdate.html">SOP Target Platform Update</a></li>
+				<li><a href="sop-release.html">SOP Release of a component</a></li>
 				<li><a href="sop-addMissingLicense2JavaFile.html">SOP Add Missing License to java files</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</section>
diff --git a/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/sop-release.xml b/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/sop-release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d20f949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/org.eclipse.papyrus.components.parent/src/site/xdoc/user/sop-release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/xdoc-2.0.xsd">
+
+	<properties>
+		<title>Components - Release Standard Operating Procedure</title>
+	</properties>
+
+	<body>
+		<section name="sop-release">
+			<subsection name="Who is in charge of?">
+				<p>Commiter + a basic developer in order to transfer knowledge and improve the process.</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="When?">
+				<p>when you need it, on a regular basis, every two month.</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="How long?">
+				<p>It last at least 120mn</p>
+			</subsection>
+
+		</section>
+		<section name="Prerequisite">
+			<subsection name="Access">
+				<p>
+					Have the Hudson access to the Component tab and a committer with you to make the review and merge.
+				</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Green">
+				<p>No critical bugs open for the release you are targeting.</p>
+				<p>Jobs (master,website,quality,deploy) are green</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Version">
+				<p>Initial version of your pom.xml, MANIFEST.MF and category.xml should match qualifier and -SNAPSHOT</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Change log">
+				<p>You must fill the changelog to describe the new version feature.</p>
+				<source>/org.eclipse.papyrus-sysml/src/changes/changes.xml</source>
+				<p>Details <a href="https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/changes.html">https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/changes.html</a></p>
+			</subsection>
+		</section>
+		<section name="Pre-Actions">
+			<p>You can send an email to the developers  mailing list.
+			</p>
+		</section>
+		<section name="Steps">
+			<subsection name="Create a bugzilla ticket.">
+				<p>Bug XXXXXX - [YourComponent][release][YourTargetVersion] Release</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Upgrade the version of application">
+				<p>use tycho-versions plugin to switch from qualifier to release, and then back from release to qualifier</p>
+				<source>mvn org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:set-version -DnewVersion=X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT</source>
+				<p>check the different pom.xml and MANIFEST.MF</p>
+				<p>You have to manually update the category.xml at /org.eclipse.papyrus-sysml/releng/org.eclipse.papyrus.sysml14.p2/category.xml</p>
+				<p>Push on gerrit the different modifications</p>
+				<p>Check the status of the gerrit job</p>
+				<p>Add a reviewer</p>
+				<p>Review and merge the change</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Rexecute the job Master and eventually  job Website">
+				<p>Who: any</p>
+				<p>Goal is to use this job version as data for the promotion.</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Make the release">
+				<p>Who: commiter action</p>
+				<p>Go the hudson Component tab</p>
+				<p>Execute the job papyrus-component-deploy-eclipse</p>
+				<p>Fill the args</p>
+				<p>It should tag the release automatically, you copuld check it by looking at the git repository</p>
+				<p>It should also automatically execute the job papyrus-component-deploy-nexus: to deploy the artifact into the Eclipse Papyrus official Nexus</p>
+				<p>It should also automatically execute the job and papyrus-component-deploy-website</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Deploy the web site">
+				<p>Who: uncommiter action + commiter review</p>
+				<p>The new web site is available under the target/site-staging directory</p>
+				<p>Download it as a zip</p>
+				<p>Unzip it in the papyrus web git repository, under the papyrus/components/YourComponent directort</p>
+				<p>Update the root index.html with the new version of your component</p>
+				<source>https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/papyrus-sysml.git/</source>
+				<p>Ask for validation for the review.</p>
+				<p>Once it is merged, you should see it 3mn here http://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/components/MyComponent/YourTargetVersion/</p>
+			</subsection>
+			<subsection name="Upgrade to the next snapshot version of the application">
+				<p>use tycho-versions plugin</p>
+				<source>mvn org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:set-version -DnewVersion=X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT</source>
+				<p>You have to manually update the category.xml at /org.eclipse.papyrus-sysml/releng/org.eclipse.papyrus.sysml14.p2/category.xml</p>
+				<p>check the different pom.xml and MANIFEST.MF</p>
+				<p>Push it as new patch and make the review.</p>
+			</subsection>			
+		</section>
+		<section name="Post-Actions">
+			<p>You can send an email to the developers mailing list</p>
+		</section>
+		
+	</body>
+
+</document>
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