title: Maven Release Plugin Issue - Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare
body: <p>Struggling to maven:release this project.  Looks like a version incompatibility issue, but I'm not sure how to rectify this issue.  I'm using Maven version 3.1.1.</p>
  
  <p>Here's my pom.xml (sample)</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;defaultGoal&gt;install&lt;/defaultGoal&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.0.2&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;source&gt;1.6&lt;/source&gt;
            &lt;target&gt;1.6&lt;/target&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;
  
    &lt;reporting&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-project-info-reports-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;reportSets&gt;
            &lt;reportSet&gt;
              &lt;reports&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;index&lt;/report&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;summary&lt;/report&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;project-team&lt;/report&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;mailing-list&lt;/report&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;cim&lt;/report&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;issue-tracking&lt;/report&gt;
                &lt;report&gt;scm&lt;/report&gt;
              &lt;/reports&gt;
            &lt;/reportSet&gt;
          &lt;/reportSets&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/reporting&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's the maven stack trace during release:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare (default-cli) on project project-common-root: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare failed: An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.maven.scm.command.tag.AbstractTagCommand.executeTagCommand(Lorg/apache/maven/scm/provider/ScmProviderRepository;Lorg/apache/maven/scm/ScmFileSet;Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/apache/maven/scm/ScmTagParameters;)Lorg/apache/maven/scm/ScmResult;
  [ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] realm =    plugin&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2
  [ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy
  [ERROR] urls[0] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin/2.3.2/maven-release-plugin-2.3.2.jar
  [ERROR] urls[1] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-gitexe/1.1/maven-scm-provider-gitexe-1.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[2] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/regexp/regexp/1.3/regexp-1.3.jar
  [ERROR] urls[3] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-git-commons/1.1/maven-scm-provider-git-commons-1.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[4] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/1.5.7/plexus-utils-1.5.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[5] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/release/maven-release-manager/2.3.2/maven-release-manager-2.3.2.jar
  [ERROR] urls[6] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[7] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interactivity-api/1.0-alpha-6/plexus-interactivity-api-1.0-alpha-6.jar
  [ERROR] urls[8] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interpolation/1.14/plexus-interpolation-1.14.jar
  [ERROR] urls[9] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/plexus/plexus-sec-dispatcher/1.3/plexus-sec-dispatcher-1.3.jar
  [ERROR] urls[10] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/plexus/plexus-cipher/1.4/plexus-cipher-1.4.jar
  [ERROR] urls[11] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/backport-util-concurrent/backport-util-concurrent/3.1/backport-util-concurrent-3.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[12] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-invoker/2.0.9/maven-invoker-2.0.9.jar
  [ERROR] urls[13] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/commons-lang/commons-lang/2.4/commons-lang-2.4.jar
  [ERROR] urls[14] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.0/commons-cli-1.0.jar
  [ERROR] urls[15] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0/commons-logging-1.0.jar
  [ERROR] urls[16] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-providers-standard/1.7/maven-scm-providers-standard-1.7.pom
  [ERROR] urls[17] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-accurev/1.7/maven-scm-provider-accurev-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[18] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-bazaar/1.7/maven-scm-provider-bazaar-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[19] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-clearcase/1.7/maven-scm-provider-clearcase-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[20] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-cvsexe/1.7/maven-scm-provider-cvsexe-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[21] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-cvs-commons/1.7/maven-scm-provider-cvs-commons-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[22] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-cvsjava/1.7/maven-scm-provider-cvsjava-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[23] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/netbeans/lib/cvsclient/20060125/cvsclient-20060125.jar
  [ERROR] urls[24] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/ch/ethz/ganymed/ganymed-ssh2/build210/ganymed-ssh2-build210.jar
  [ERROR] urls[25] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-hg/1.7/maven-scm-provider-hg-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[26] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-perforce/1.7/maven-scm-provider-perforce-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[27] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-starteam/1.7/maven-scm-provider-starteam-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[28] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-svnexe/1.7/maven-scm-provider-svnexe-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[29] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-synergy/1.7/maven-scm-provider-synergy-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[30] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-vss/1.7/maven-scm-provider-vss-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[31] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-tfs/1.7/maven-scm-provider-tfs-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[32] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-integrity/1.7/maven-scm-provider-integrity-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[33] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/com/mks/api/mksapi-jar/4.10.9049/mksapi-jar-4.10.9049.jar
  [ERROR] urls[34] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy-all/1.7.6/groovy-all-1.7.6.jar
  [ERROR] urls[35] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-jazz/1.7/maven-scm-provider-jazz-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[36] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-manager-plexus/1.7/maven-scm-manager-plexus-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[37] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-svn-commons/1.7/maven-scm-provider-svn-commons-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[38] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/jaxen/jaxen/1.1-beta-8/jaxen-1.1-beta-8.jar
  [ERROR] urls[39] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/jdom/jdom/1.0/jdom-1.0.jar
  [ERROR] urls[40] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-jdk14/1.5.6/slf4j-jdk14-1.5.6.jar
  [ERROR] urls[41] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.6/slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar
  [ERROR] urls[42] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/jcl-over-slf4j/1.5.6/jcl-over-slf4j-1.5.6.jar
  [ERROR] urls[43] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-reporting-api/2.2.1/maven-reporting-api-2.2.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[44] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-sink-api/1.1/doxia-sink-api-1.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[45] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-logging-api/1.1/doxia-logging-api-1.1.jar
  [ERROR] urls[46] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-api/1.7/maven-scm-api-1.7.jar
  [ERROR] urls[47] = file:/Users/161541/.m2/repository/org/jdom/jdom/1.1/jdom-1.1.jar
  </code></pre>