I have explicitly specified in the Parent pom.xml to use maven-release-plugin 2.5, but during maven build it picks version 2.2.2.
Here's definition
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.3</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scm-provider-gitexe</artifactId>
<version>1.9.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
Here's the version its picking
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<build>
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
<artifactId>wagon-ssh-external</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-5</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-source-plugin-version}</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-javadoc-plugin-version}</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco-maven-plugin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>pre-unit-test</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.5</source>
<target>1.5</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<configuration>
<maven.cobertura.datafile>
${basedir}/target/cobertura.ser
</maven.cobertura.datafile>
<instrumentation>
<excludes>
<exclude>
com/specsavers/**/*Test.class
</exclude>
</excludes>
</instrumentation>
<check>
<branchRate>85</branchRate>
<lineRate>85</lineRate>
<haltOnFailure>false</haltOnFailure>
<totalBranchRate>85</totalBranchRate>
<totalLineRate>85</totalLineRate>
<packageLineRate>85</packageLineRate>
<packageBranchRate>85</packageBranchRate>
</check>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>clean</id>
<goals>
<goal>cobertura</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.sonarsource.scanner.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${sonar-maven-plugin.version}</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<useProjectReferences>true</useProjectReferences>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.3</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scm-provider-gitexe</artifactId>
<version>1.9.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>