- Upgrade to version 2.0 of the maven-release-plugin in order to
get the new 'update-versions' goal, which allows for doing nothing
other than updating pom versions - no tagging, no checkins, etc.
- Accommodate idiosyncracies of the plugin. When running for the first
time, it became clear that update-versions not only updates versions
as advertised, but also formats certain elements of the pom.
Committing just those format changes now so that future actual version
updates will not have to deal with this uninvited 'help'.
- How to run the command:
mvn --batch-mode release:update-versions -DdevelopmentVersion=2.0.0.M7
This will edit the <version> elements in the poms of the projects listed
in the root pom's <modules> section.
