Sorry, I misread your email. I read b67+ as b67. A promoted build is a released artifact and can't have SNAPSHOT dependency. So, 3.0-b67 for v3 b67, 3.0-b68 for v3 b68 and so on. The trunk however continues to refer to 3.0-SNAPSHOT so that when finally v3 is released, the version becomes 3.0 for the released artifact and trunk refers to ...