[MRELEASE-699] release:update-versions should support -DreleaseVersion too (not only -DdevelopmentVersion), so it also supports not suffixing the version with -SNAPSHOT

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: update-versions
• Labels: github-pullrequest
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet
• Created: 03/Aug/11 07:10
• Updated: 28/May/16 21:03
• Resolved: 06/Apr/15 09:40

Description

The documentation
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/examples/update-versions.html
states "The update-versions goal can use the same properties used by the prepare goal for specifying the versions to be used."
That's not true, as releaseVersion is not supported:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html#releaseVersion

This means, that if you do this:
mvn --batch-mode release:update-versions -DdevelopmentVersion=1.2.0
that the set version is not 1.2.0, but in fact 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2