diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index ebd77e8b..fdc94782 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 name: release
 
 on:
+  # needed because this workflow included in release-repo-dispatch.yml
+  workflow_call:
+
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       commons_version:
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f330b82e..36b839b3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
         <check.skip-enforcer>false</check.skip-enforcer>
         <check.skip-rat>false</check.skip-rat>
         <check.skip-spotbugs>false</check.skip-spotbugs>
-        <check.spotbugs-exclude-filter-file />
+        <check.spotbugs-exclude-filter-file/>
         <compiler.fail-warnings>false</compiler.fail-warnings>
         <deploy.deploy-at-end>true</deploy.deploy-at-end>
         <derby.version>10.15.2.0</derby.version>
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@
         <osgi.annotation.version>8.1.0</osgi.annotation.version>
         <osgi.dependency>*;scope=compile|runtime;inline=true</osgi.dependency>
         <osgi.description>${project.description}</osgi.description>
-        <osgi.export />
-        <osgi.extra-import />
+        <osgi.export/>
+        <osgi.extra-import/>
         <osgi.fixupmessages>"Classes found in the wrong directory...","Unused Import-Package instructions...","While traversing the type tree for...";is:=ignore</osgi.fixupmessages>
         <osgi.import>
             ${osgi.extra-import},
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
         </osgi.import>
         <osgi.name>${project.name}</osgi.name>
         <osgi.noclassforname>true</osgi.noclassforname>
-        <osgi.private />
+        <osgi.private/>
         <osgi.symbolic-name>${project.groupId}.${project.artifactId}</osgi.symbolic-name>
         <osgi.transitive-dependency>true</osgi.transitive-dependency>
         <osgi.version>8.0.0</osgi.version>
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@
                                     <include>junit:junit:[4.11,)</include>
                                 </includes>
                             </bannedDependencies>
-                            <banDuplicatePomDependencyVersions />
+                            <banDuplicatePomDependencyVersions/>
                             <requireUpperBoundDeps>
                                 <excludes>
                                     <!-- Wildcards don't seem to work -->
@@ -2145,8 +2145,8 @@
                                 <skip>${check.skip-rat}</skip>
                                 <ignoreErrors>${check.ignore-rat}</ignoreErrors>
                                 <licenseFamilies>
-                                    <licenseFamily implementation="org.apache.rat.license.Apache20LicenseFamily" />
-                                    <licenseFamily implementation="org.apache.rat.license.MITLicenseFamily" />
+                                    <licenseFamily implementation="org.apache.rat.license.Apache20LicenseFamily"/>
+                                    <licenseFamily implementation="org.apache.rat.license.MITLicenseFamily"/>
                                 </licenseFamilies>
                                 <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
                                 <parseSCMIgnoresAsExcludes>true</parseSCMIgnoresAsExcludes>