maven-release-plugin – Tarik Billa

Maven release plugin git credentials

December 25, 2023 by Tarik

Based on the docs you have to use a special property, project.scm.id, to define the id of the appropriate server entry in your settings.xml file. <properties> <project.scm.id>my-scm-server</project.scm.id> </properties> And the following in your settings.xml file: <settings> <servers> <server> <id>my-scm-server</id> <username>myUser</username> <password>myPassword</password> </server> </servers> </settings> BTW: Check if you are using the most recent version of … Read more

Remove -SNAPSHOT from project version in pom

September 16, 2023 by Tarik

Since version 2.10 of the Versions Maven Plugin you can simply do: mvn versions:set -DremoveSnapshot

Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved

August 20, 2023 by Tarik

Your debug output indicates that Clean is the first thing that it’s trying to run, so I’m guessing it’s failing to download any plugins from central. First off, see if you can download the plugin jar directly in a web browser: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.5/maven-clean-plugin-2.5.jar If that works then your web browser has connectivity to central but maven … Read more

In a Maven project, how can I automatically update the version all child modules, plus the parent?

August 14, 2023 by Tarik

A flexible way to set poms versions, multi-modules projects included, is Versions Maven Plugin. mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=your_new_version It will adjust all pom versions, parent versions and children versions in a multi-module project. then mvn versions:commit or mvn versions:revert

Avoid gpg signing prompt when using Maven release plugin

August 7, 2023 by Tarik

Just set it up in a profile in settings.xml and activate it by default: <settings> <profiles> <profile> <id>gpg</id> <properties> <gpg.executable>gpg2</gpg.executable> <gpg.passphrase>mypassphrase</gpg.passphrase> </properties> </profile> </profiles> <activeProfiles> <activeProfile>gpg</activeProfile> </activeProfiles> </settings> As you can see you can do that with any property .. e.g. also other usernames and passwords for the jarsigner plugin and so on. This should … Read more

Maven release:prepare fails with “scm connection or developerConnection must be specified”

July 25, 2023 by Tarik

If you only would like to change the version, the Versions Maven Plugin may help. The versions:set may be the good one for using. Please take a big note, since you’re not using the SCM, please make a full backup before using the following command. mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=1.0 mvn clean install mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=1.1-SNAPSHOT mvn … Read more

how to make maven release plugin skip tests?

May 24, 2023 by Tarik

This worked for me. I wanted to both prepare and perform the release. mvn clean -DskipTests -Darguments=-DskipTests release:prepare release:perform

how to release a project which depends on a 3rd party SNAPSHOT project in maven

March 30, 2023 by Tarik

Problem is with the allowTimestampedSnapshots parameter name, it’s in the documentation but the plugin’s source uses a different parameter name in expression – ignoreSnapshots. So just use -DignoreSnapshots=true and the prepare goal of the release plugin will ignore snapshot dependencies.

Maven release plugin fails : source artifacts getting deployed twice

February 17, 2023 by Tarik

Try running mvn -Prelease-profile help:effective-pom. You will find that you have two execution sections for maven-source-plugin The output will look something like this: <plugin> <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0.4</version> <executions> <execution> <id>attach-sources</id> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> </goals> </execution> <execution> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> To fix this problem, find everywhere you have used maven-source-plugin and make sure that you … Read more

How to deploy SNAPSHOT with sources and JavaDoc?

January 5, 2023 by Tarik

<build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>attach-sources</id> <phase>deploy</phase> <goals><goal>jar-no-fork</goal></goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>attach-javadocs</id> <phase>deploy</phase> <goals><goal>jar</goal></goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <!– explicitly define maven-deploy-plugin after other to force exec order –> <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>deploy</id> <phase>deploy</phase> <goals><goal>deploy</goal></goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> See Sonatype’s OSS parent POM for a complete example.