How to get the semver Major part of a Maven version?
This works on Maven 3.3.9:
${project.artifact.selectedVersion.majorVersion}
Found it. The build-helper-maven-plugin has the ability to parse-out the components of the version.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<id>parse-version</id>
<goals>
<goal>parse-version</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<echo>[version] ${project.version}</echo>
<echo>[majorVersion] ${parsedVersion.majorVersion}</echo>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>