Use with Release Plugin

Plugin Configuration

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.1</version>
  <configuration>
  ....
    <providerImplementations>
      <svn>javasvn</svn>
    </providerImplementations>
  </configuration>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.code.maven-scm-provider-svnjava</groupId> 
      <artifactId>maven-scm-provider-svnjava</artifactId> 
      <version>1.12</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>