Hey guys, a while ago I raised this issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-985
and also I made a pull-request: https://github.com/apache/maven-release/pull/18 but it was closed, because I believe after a few years the code was very much out of sync with the master. However, I checked the master and seems like there is a way to override the SNAPSHOT dependencies from the command with a command like this: mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT:prepare -DdryRun=true -Ddependency.com.nemesis:bom.release=2.0.1.RELEASE -Ddependency.com.nemesis:bom.development=2.1.3-BUILD-SNAPSHOT -e -B However, when I tried it I got the same error: Caused by: org.apache.maven.shared.release.ReleaseFailureException: Can't release project due to non released dependencies : com.nemesis:bom:pom:2.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT in project 'Nemesis Platform' (com.nemesis:platform:pom:2.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT) Then I started digging and saw that in the DefaultReleaseManager the command-line properties are copied to a new ReleaseBuilder using ReleaseUtils.copyPropertiesToReleaseDescriptor and then this new release builder is ignored. Furthermore the CheckDependenciesSnapshotsPhase was not interested if the dependency was resolved from the command-line and was simply checking if it is a SNAPSHOT dependency. With those two small changes my build works fine. Can someone of you have a look at my PR: https://github.com/apache/maven-release/pull/28 and confirm that the change in DefaultReleaseManager doesn't break anything. All the tests pass. If you confirm that it is OK I can add a test Thank you. -- Regards, Petar! Karlovo, Bulgaria. --- Public PGP Key at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x19658550C3110611 Key Fingerprint: A369 A7EE 61BC 93A3 CDFF 55A5 1965 8550 C311 0611
