Maven property not resolved in parent tag

Question

The following properties are not resolved:

    UTF-8
    

        

Answer 1

This is normal. Currently, Maven does not evaluate properties inside the <parent> tag, so you need to write explicitely the version.

This was reported in MNG-2569 as a bug, which is duplicated by the more general MNG-624. There are currently no plans to make this work in the future (the issue is closed as "Won't Fix").