How to release Maven project using Jenkins

Question

When I am trying to release a Maven project using Jenkins, I am getting an error like this:

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5:prepare (default-cli) on project maven-plugin: You don't have a SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list.

Answer 1

The error message means that the project (or one of its submodules) is not a SNAPSHOT project, ie it's version is not [version]-SNAPSHOT but only [version] .

You cannot release a project that is not a SNAPSHOT project so you need to change the version of your pom.xml to include -SNAPSHOT .