I've seen that the 5.2.0.Beta1 version has been released today.
However the new module (org.hibernate:hibernate-validator-test-utils:jar) is not deployed on any artifact repository.
This is due to the fact the maven deploy plugin is configured with the skip option.

Correct.

Is this skip option really intended ?

Partly. I never really saw this module as something which is used outside Validator itself. At least that was never the intention. However, you proof me wrong I guess there is no problem deploying this artifact as well. I'll create a another issue for it. I guess we can just change this with the next release.