Maven deploys to snapshot instead of release

Question

I'm trying to release a project using maven but instead of releasing to the Releases repository it puts it in our Snapshots repo.

My pom looks like:

<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>com.example.my.profiler</groupId> <artifactId>profilerlib</artifactId> <name>Profiler Lib</name> <version>1.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version> <description>Profiler Library</description> <scm>     <connection>scm:svn:https://svn.example.com/my-project/profilerlib/trunk     </connection>     <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.example.com/my-project/profilerlib/trunk     </developerConnection> </scm> <distributionManagement>     <!-- Publish the versioned releases here -->     <repository>         <id>nexus</id>         <name>nexus</name>         <url>http://repo.example.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases         </url>     </repository>     <!-- Publish the versioned releases here -->     <snapshotRepository>         <id>nexus</id>         <name>nexus</name>         <url>http://repo.example.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots         </url>     </snapshotRepository> </distributionManagement> <!-- download artifacts from this repo --> <repositories>     <repository>         <id>nexus</id>         <name>EXAMPLE Public Repository</name>         <url>http://repo.example.com:8081/nexus/content/groups/public</url>         <releases>             <enabled>true</enabled>         </releases>         <snapshots>             <enabled>true</enabled>         </snapshots>     </repository> </repositories> <dependencies>     ... </dependencies> <build>     <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>     <plugins>         <plugin>             <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>             <configuration>                 <tagBase>https://svn.example.com/my-project/profilerlib/tags                 </tagBase>             </configuration>         </plugin>         <plugin>             <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>             <configuration>                 <source>1.6</source>                 <target>1.6</target>             </configuration>         </plugin>     </plugins> </build> <properties>     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>     <powermock.version>1.4.6</powermock.version> </properties> </project> 

Answer 1

In case anyone else is having this problem and find the existing answers do not solve their issues:

There have been a handful of bugs which mean that release:prepare does not commit to the git repository before creating the release tag. This means that the version number in the pom files that the release:perform finds contains -SNAPSHOT and the deployer will try to release to the snapshot repository.

Here is the most recent defect responsible for this behavior: MRELEASE-875 (affects 2.5, fixed in 2.5.1)