diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
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-<ReleaseNotes>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-7-1"
-		date="2020-04-28">
-		<Change>Feature #18992, Reconsider the alert message raised when writing a post containing more than one link</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-7-0"
-		date="2019-03-29">
-		<Change>Revised social networking library mechanism for http links, mentions and hashtags recognition, Task #13207</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-6-2"
-		date="2019-01-04">
-		<Change>Incident #13096, mentioning in some VRE may not work</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-6-1"
-		date="2018-04-12">
-		<Change>Removed previous jquery js load script</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-6-0"
-		date="2018-02-07">
-		<Change>restyled checkbox for notifications</Change>
-		<Change>Removed deprecated TIBCO Pagebus library and replaces with
-			Liferay's IPC Client Side
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Enhanced efficiency when retrieving mentioned users or groups
-			in posts
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-5-0"
-		date="2017-12-07">
-		<Change>drop down menu replaced with checkbox for notifications, see
-			Task #9971
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-4-0"
-		date="2017-05-03">
-		<Change>Ported to Java8</Change>
-		<Change>Fix for bug #7630</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-3-1"
-		date="2017-04-12">
-		<Change>Fixes an issue where the sharing of posts in any VRE would not
-			generate any notification in some cases, Incident #7553
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Fix for Bug #8063, Share Updates links are truncated in some
-			cases
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-3-0"
-		date="2017-02-20">
-		<Change>Updated method for using ftp server</Change>
-		<Change>Minor fix when VREs' teams are notified</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-1-0"
-		date="2016-09-29">
-		<Change>updated opengraph checkURL for getting images in case of HTTP
-			redirect permanently is encountered
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-0-0"
-		date="2016-06-29">
-		<Change>Updated to Liferay 6.2.5</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-9-2"
-		date="2016-02-29">
-		<Change>Minor bug fixes</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-9-0"
-		date="2016-01-22">
-		<Change>Multi-attachment upload is now supported</Change>
-		<Change>Drag and drop mechanism added for attachments</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-8-2"
-		date="2015-12-21">
-		<Change>Restyled to optimize vertical space</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-8-0"
-		date="2015-07-06">
-		<Change>made notification to members option configurable as default,
-			see Feature #121
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-7-0"
-		date="2015-05-27">
-		<Change>Integrated gwt-bootstrap and revised css</Change>
-		<Change>ported to GWT 2.7.0</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-6-1"
-		date="2014-12-13">
-		<Change>Added Client scope handler, to set the scope from the client
-			and help preventing the browser back button cache problem
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-6-0"
-		date="2014-11-03">
-		<Change>Added possibility to define topics in a post using hashtags
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Added save attachments in VRE Group folder</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-5-1"
-		date="2014-07-03">
-		<Change>Fixed commons-validator dependency</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-5-0"
-		date="2014-06-06">
-		<Change>Adapted pom to the new portal bundle gcore free</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-4-0"
-		date="2014-05-22">
-		<Change>Fixed bug when posting in single vre</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-3-0"
-		date="2014-05-09">
-		<Change>Added possibility to alert the users of a VRE when sharing an
-			update
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Refined the way to guess content and images when parsing HTML
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Improved images recognition when parsing html pages having no
-			image indication from openGraph
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Added user agent property to http requests to avoid web
-			servers 'complaining' HTTP 403 errors
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Replaced all the line breaks and all the double spaces with
-			the html version to preserve new lines in posts
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Fixed bug when changing user avatar and minor restyle</Change>
-		<Change>Several improvements in url checkings</Change>
-		<Change>resolved problem with AdBlock plugin </Change>
-		<Change>Fixed mention user dialog y-position when textbox is higher
-			than usual due to new lines
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Mention users list now returns only the list of the available
-			users in the current organization
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Fixed posts when multiple tabs are open, now the status is
-			kept on the client
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-1-3"
-		date="2014-02-10">
-		<Change>added thumbnail generation and upload on FTP server</Change>
-		<Change>added upload a copy on my workspace file when sharing a file
-		</Change>
-		<Change>implemented the file preview with icons or preview depending
-			on the extension of the file
-		</Change>
-		<Change>integrated file uplod progress bar widget for sharing files
-		</Change>
-		<Change>fixed bug allowing users to post while generating file/url
-			previews
-		</Change>
-		<Change>fixed bug allowing users to mention theirselves</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.1-0-0"
-		date="2013-10-21">
-		<Change>Ported to GWT 251</Change>
-		<Change>Ported to Feather Weight Stack</Change>
-		<Change>Removed GCF Dependency</Change>
-		<Change>Logging with sl4j Enabled</Change>
-		<Change>Fixed image previes retrieval when image is in the same folder
-			of the linked page
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.0-5-0"
-		date="2013-07-18">
-		<Change>Mention people in tags correctly referred to user profiles
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.0-3-0"
-		date="2013-04-19">
-		<Change>Added possibility to mention people in tags</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.0-1-0"
-		date="2013-01-13">
-		<Change>First Release</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-</ReleaseNotes>
diff --git a/distro/descriptor.xml b/distro/descriptor.xml
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-<assembly
-	xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
-	<id>servicearchive</id>
-	<formats>
-		<format>tar.gz</format>
-	</formats>
-	<baseDirectory>/</baseDirectory>
-	<fileSets>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>${distroDirectory}</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-			<useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
-			<includes>
-				<include>README</include>
-				<include>LICENSE</include>
-				<include>changelog.xml</include>
-				<include>profile.xml</include>
-			</includes>
-			<fileMode>755</fileMode>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</fileSet>
-	</fileSets>
-	<files>
-		<file>
-			<source>target/${build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
-		</file>
-	</files>
-</assembly>
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diff --git a/distro/profile.xml b/distro/profile.xml
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--- a/distro/profile.xml
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@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-	<ID></ID>
-	<Type>Service</Type>
-	<Profile>
-		<Description>${description}</Description>
-		<Class>PortletUser</Class>
-		<Name>${artifactId}</Name>
-		<Version>${version}</Version>
-		<Packages>
-			<Software>
-				<Name>${artifactId}</Name>
-				<Version>${version}</Version>
-				<MavenCoordinates>
-					<groupId>${groupId}</groupId>
-					<artifactId>${artifactId}</artifactId>
-					<version>${version}</version>
-				</MavenCoordinates>
-				<Files>
-					<File>target/${build.finalName}.war</File>
-				</Files>
-			</Software>
-		</Packages>
-	</Profile>
-</Resource>