Past discussion which happened on similar question, http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg108587.html
Kalpak
Hi, Using release:prepare, release:perform I successfully created a tag in svn. I now have to fix some bugs so I thought I should create a new branch from the svn tag. Is this the way to go? So I created from 1.0-SNAPSHOT the svn tag 1.0 and have the working copy 2.0-SNAPSHOT. To fix a bug i the old release I want to create the branch 1.1-SNAPSHOT from the version 1.0. How can I do this? It is a multi module project and I'd rather not fix all versions by hand... Cheers, Jan