 <p>I think that you can not do a release of a project which depends on projects in Snapshot version.</p> <p>Maybe this could help to configure your pom.xml</p> <p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven">how to release a project which depends on a 3rd party SNAPSHOT project in maven</a></p>