This was a known bug, fixed in maven-release-plugin 2.1. Are you using that 
release?

On 01/11/2010, at 12:26 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:

> I have a pom which has a property which has as a value "2.3.1-SNAPSHOT".
> 
> The property is used to factor into one spot the version level for 
> dependencies,
> where the dependencies are for other modules in a multi-module build (most of
> which have the same
> version level). 
> 
> When I do mvn release:prepare -DdryRun on a POM which includes this as a 
> module,
> the release:prepare successfully updates the property, first, to "2.3.1" for 
> the
> "tag", and then, for the next development version, to "2.3.2-SNAPSHOT".  I 
> think
> it figures out that this property is being used as a dependency version value,
> and matches it to version levels of things in the "Reactor", to figure out it
> needs updating.
> 
> So far everything seems to be correct.
> 
> But, if I do exactly the same thing, but leave off the "-DdryRun", it updates
> the property, first (as before), to "2.3.1" for the tag, but then does *not*
> update it for the next development version.
> 
> Any idea why?  Is this a (known) bug?  I can, of course, work around this by
> manually updating this property to the right level and committing that change 
> to
> the trunk.
> 
> -Marshall Schor
> 
> 
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