# Cant release project non released dependencies

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/cant-release-project-non-released-dependencies/2373>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/cant-release-project-non-released-dependencies/2373 "2019-08-21T11:15:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![hawkbase85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hawkbase85](https://community.sonatype.com/u/hawkbase85)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/cant-release-project-non-released-dependencies/2373/1 "2019-08-21T11:15:58Z")

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I am building a project in a pipeline. I am getting Build Failure Error: Can’t release the project due to non-released dependencies.

Multi-module java project using Maven as the Build tool and Nexus as repository manager in Jenkins pipeline.

When the artifact named as -SNAPSHOT, I was able to build a snapshot, generate war file, upload it to Nexus but during the next cycle in the Build phase, it fails with the error: Can’t release the project due to non-released dependencies. I don’t have any control over the scripts/steps in the pipeline.

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**Author:** ![rseddon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/rseddon/32/341_2.png) [@rseddon](https://community.sonatype.com/u/rseddon)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/cant-release-project-non-released-dependencies/2373/2 "2019-08-21T14:20:10Z")

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You can’t release a snapshot version, all versions must be release versions.