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Lee Theobald
Lee Theobald

Reputation: 8587

Maven Release Plugin: Where Is It Getting It's Version From?

When I use the Maven release plugin on a project, it's releasing the wrong thing. This seems to be a fixed bug in the version of the Maven release plugin I'm using so I'd like to update it. But I can't quite figure out where it's getting this version from.

When I run mvn release:help I can see that I'm running version 2.3.2. But I can't find where this version is defined. It's not in my project's POM file. It's also not in my settings.xml file in M2_HOME.

I know I can fix the version for this one project but I've rather fix it in place for all projects. Anyone have idea of where I can look? Upgrading to the latest version of Maven 3.X has no affect on what plugin version I'm using.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 76

Answers (1)

Tunaki
Tunaki

Reputation: 137319

It is defined in the Super POM, the POM from which all other POM inherits. From the docs of Maven 3.3.9 (which is currently the latest version):

All models implicitly inherit from a super-POM:
...

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.2</version>
</plugin>

This POM defines global version for a couple of widely used plugins and the global default values for every Maven project. One of them is the maven-release-plugin and the declared version is 2.3.2.

Upvotes: 2

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