is it gone? perhaps in favor of the http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/ plugin?
>mvn release:update-versions ... [INFO] Required goal not found: release:update-versions in org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0-beta-8 and >mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0-beta-9:update-versions ... [INFO] Required goal not found: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0-beta-9:update-versions in org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0-beta-9
