Fail the version sync when it matches nothing replaceregexp reports nothing when it matches nothing, so a renamed or dropped axis2.version property would leave a userguide sample pinned to a stale version and the release would carry on quietly -- the failure mode the sync exists to prevent. Count the poms, count the ones carrying the version being released, and fail on a mismatch naming the counts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>