Maven release plugin – Non-parseable settings error

I have a big maven project I want to release using the mvn release plugin. I can run the mvn release:prepare locally (on an OS X computer), however when I try the same on my GNU/Linux build agent (Which is a Centos 7.4), I get the following problem:

[INFO] Executing goals 'clean verify'...
[INFO] [ERROR] Error executing Maven.
[INFO] [ERROR] 1 problem was encountered while building the effective settings
[INFO] [FATAL] Non-parseable settings /tmp/release-settings6955073192509771699.xml: start tag unexpected character " (position: TEXT seen ...<properties>n        <os.detected.release.like."... @21:36)  @ /tmp/release-settings6955073192509771699.xml, line 21, column 36

I have tried to find any reference similar to <os.detected.release.like." in the pom files, yet I’ve been unlucky since it is not present anywhere. I have also tried to read that /tmp/release-settings6955073192509771699.xml file, which does not exist. (Possibly generated and deleted by maven during this phase)

To make this even more strange, another coworker is able to run mvn release:prepare on his Windows workstation and also in the Ubuntu bash embedded there (Which is a Ubuntu GNU/Linux with kernel 3.4)

I am currently completely puzzled, any idea where should I look for the error origin here? I guess is in the parent pom.xml, but it just looks fine.

Answer

One of the sub-modules in the project was using kr.motd.maven on version 1.3.0, it seems that there is a bug in this version not allowing the release on Centos 7.4 (Working however on Ubuntu, OS X and Windows 10).

Upgrading the plugin version to 1.5.0 (latest) fixed the problem for me.

It is quite strange that the project can be in fact built with the 1.3.0 on Centos 7.4, it is only failing during mvn release:prepare phase.