Are you using the maven plugin snapshots repository? If you are, then many of the maven plugins could have been updated.
Not directly but others projects yes. For information, here, is my test pom.xml ------------- <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>test.maven.profiles</groupId> <artifactId>test1</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <phase>validate</phase> <configuration> <tasks> <echo>${profile.common.message}</echo> <echo>${profile.dev.message}</echo> </tasks> </configuration> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> profiles.xml ----------------- <profilesXml> <profiles> <profile> <id>common</id> <properties> <profile.common.message>common property</profile.common.message> </properties> </profile> <profile> <id>dev</id> <properties> <profile.dev.message>dev property</profile.dev.message> </properties> <activation> <property> <name>env</name> <value>dev</value> </property> </activation> </profile> </profiles> <activeProfiles> <activeProfile>common</activeProfile> </activeProfiles> </profilesXml> Remy
