The release.version.major is not defined. Create a release.properties with: # The release version properties. These will be validated against # the corresponding version.major, version.minor, version.revision, # and version.tag as seen in the source tree build-common.xml release.version.major=X release.version.minor=Y release.version.revision=X release.version.tag=T The release.version.* properties to not match the version.* values: release.version.major (${release.version.major}) != version.major (${version.major}) release.version.minor (${release.version.minor}) != version.minor (${version.minor}) release.version.revision (${release.version.revision}) != version.revision (${version.revision}) release.version.tag (${release.version.tag}) != version.tag (${version.tag}) Check the ${version}/${cvs.module}/tools/etc/buildmagic/version-info.xml