Hm, for me it keeps the line breaks, it does however change the intention for the tag element. I thought this was configurable, but can't find it at the moment.
Anyway this is an open (and rejected) issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-1008 Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net ________________________________ Von: Eric Lilja <mindcoo...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 3:21:51 PM An: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> Betreff: Prevent maven-release-plugin from reformatting attributes on project element Hi, we noticed that maven-release-plugin changes formatting of the project element, it writes the element as a single line, removing existing line breaks on attributes. Is it possible to make it preserve original formatting? We're using maven-release-plugin version 3.0.0-M1 - Eric L