Maven Release Plugin

<dependencies>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
		<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
		<version>3.2.0</version>
		<type>maven-plugin</type>
	</dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
		<plugin>
		    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
		    <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
		    <version>2.5.3</version>
		    <configuration>
		        <tagNameFormat>@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
		        <checkModificationExcludes>
		            <checkModificationExclude>pom.xml</checkModificationExclude>
		        </checkModificationExcludes>
		    </configuration>
		</plugin>
	<build>
<plugins>

Knowledge

mvn --batch-mode \ release:clean release:prepare release:perform \ -Darguments="-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests=true \ -Dmaven.test.skip=true" -Dusername=<GIT_SCM_USER> -Dpassword=<GIT_SCM_PASS>	mvn --batch-mode \ build-helper:parse-version versions:set \ -DnewVersion=${parsedVersion.majorVersion}\ .${parsedVersion.nextMinorVersion}.0-SNAPSHOT versions:commit

References

Maven Release Plugin » A simple example Maven Release Plugin » Gist
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