Hi,
I just tried to rebuild the Kura 3.1 release and found out that this isn't possible anymore.
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 25.772 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-10-16T15:15:45+00:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 24M/397M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.honton.chas:exists-maven-plugin:0.0.3:remote (default) on project target-platform: Artifact already exists in repository: org.eclipse.kura:target-platform:3.1.0/target-platform-3.1.0.pom -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1]
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException----
Looking at the configuration it seems that Kura actively checks if "out there" exists Kura 3.1 and then simply fails the build: