Issue
I'm trying to find out if the maven-release-plugin uses the string release.arguments or arguments to pass additional arguments to the maven release plugin. For example,
mvn release:perform -DignoreSnapshots=true -Drelease.arguments=-DaltDeploymentRepository=my-login::default::https://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-releases/
I found the latest release at https://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/index.html which at the time of this question is 3.0.0-M4. The current version uses arguments and it's documented.
My question is:
Does Maven have a standard way of storing/referring to previous releases of plugins? If not, what is a way to get the list of arguments available in the 2.8.2 version?
Many sites have a dropdown that lets you pick the prior versions, but I didn't see that on this website or this plugin.
Looking for the solution
A search of the above question did not find anything useful. A search on SO found several questions but none that answered my question, see https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bmaven%5D+release+plugin
Several others questions, that I won't list.
Solution
The documentation for the parameters has as "since" column.
There you can see that arguments was always called arguments.
Answered By - J Fabian Meier
