diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
index 8630d13..2846e28 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
-      <!-- not the version of plugin-tools actually building, but the version used to build the plugin -->
-      <version>${mavenPluginToolsVersion}</version>
+      <!-- from stricter view, should use ${mavenPluginToolsVersion} but this is causing problems with release plugin -->
+      <!--version>${mavenPluginToolsVersion}</version-->
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>