problem with old sonatype repo?

Author: wumpz

pom.xml

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.0.1</version>
+                <version>3.0.0-M7</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <localCheckout>true</localCheckout>
                     <pushChanges>false</pushChanges>