diff --git a/mappings/mappings-release.sh b/mappings/mappings-release.sh
index 1f9c4468c53423844df8725ff8d790a01a8fa718..a4b47917a1d43d5f19aaffa54c132522af82417e 100755
--- a/mappings/mappings-release.sh
+++ b/mappings/mappings-release.sh
@@ -91,12 +91,9 @@ RELEASELABELPREFIX="(pre-release)"
 RELEASECOMMENTPREFIX="(MARVIN is the DBpedia bot, that runs the DBpedia Information Extraction Framework (DIEF) and releases the data as is, i.e. unparsed, unsorted, not redirected for debugging the software. After its releases, data is cleaned and persisted under the dbpedia account.)"
 
     cd $DATABUSMAVENPOMDIR;
-    mvn deploy \
-	-Ddatabus.publisher="$RELEASEPUBLISHER" \
-	-Ddatabus.packageDirectory="$RELEASEPACKAGEDIR" \
-	-Ddatabus.downloadUrlPath="$RELEASEDOWNLOADURL" \
-	-Ddatabus.labelPrefix="$RELEASELABELPREFIX" \
-	-Ddatabus.commentPrefix="$RELEASECOMMENTPREFIX";
+    # get latest docu
+    git pull 
+    mvn deploy -Ddatabus.publisher="$RELEASEPUBLISHER" -Ddatabus.packageDirectory="$RELEASEPACKAGEDIR" -Ddatabus.downloadUrlPath="$RELEASEDOWNLOADURL" -Ddatabus.labelPrefix="$RELEASELABELPREFIX" -Ddatabus.commentPrefix="$RELEASECOMMENTPREFIX";
 }
 
 compressLogs() {