How to update the maven version without pom backup files

Question

To prevent creating backup files, use generateBackupPoms instead:

mvn versions:set -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -DnewVersion=3.9.0-SNAPSHOT

I also saw that you can set up generateBackupPoms in the plugin section of a pom.xml if you want to do it that way.

Note if you are using eclipse, you can run the command using a run configuration like this:

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See also: http://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/set-mojo.html