How can I fail a Jenkins Maven release if it contains SNAPSHOT in the pom.xml

Question

When we do a release we want to fail the release if any of the dependent apps are still in SNAPSHOT version in the pom. For normal builds this should be allowed.

I guess there might be 2 options:

• Is there a maven switch for the jenkins maven plugin to specify such and option?
• Run a bash script to check for "SNAPSHOT" string in pom.xml, but then how can I detect "if this is a release" inside a jenkins job?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use Maven Release Plugin to perform a release, it will fail the release in case of SNAPSHOT dependencies.

You also can specify checking for timestamped SNAPSHOT dependencies, by default it is false.