Niclas Hedhman increment This is the default goal of the plugin and simply print out an explaination about this plugin increment:initialize Initializes the Versioning system. Need to be run once before starting to use the plugin. If it has not been run, it will be run automatically at the first dist:deploy or jar:deploy, but require you to restart Maven's build again. increment:major This goal increments the Major number and reset the positions to the right. increment:minor This goal increments the Minor number and reset the positions to the right. increment:phase This goal increments the Phase number and reset the build number to zero. increment:micro This goal is mainly for internal and testing purposes. It increases the build number, and should probably never be used directly.