I think you have to go back to Maven 3.6.x because Maven broke compatibility with plugins, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7316
Gary On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 00:09 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I was looking to make a new release of commons-codec. I’ve been > following the steps in [1], but when I try to create the release candidate > via the commons-release plugin, I get the following error: > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.commons:commons-release-plugin:1.7:detach-distributions > (detatch-distributions) on project commons-codec: Execution > detatch-distributions of goal > org.apache.commons:commons-release-plugin:1.7:detach-distributions failed.: > UnsupportedOperationException -> [Help 1] > > Now if this plugin isn’t doing much that running “mvn release:perform” > wouldn’t handle, then I can work around this, but otherwise, the release > process doesn’t work for me. Here’s some version info: > > Apache Maven 3.8.4 (9b656c72d54e5bacbed989b64718c159fe39b537) > Maven home: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.8.4/libexec > Java version: 1.8.0_312, vendor: Azul Systems, Inc., runtime: > /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-8.jdk/Contents/Home/jre > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 > OS name: "mac os x", version: "12.1", arch: "aarch64", family: "mac" > > [1]: https://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.html > — > Matt Sicker > >