title: Version RELEASE or LATEST for parent pom
body: <p>From maven 3.5.2, the following warning is displayed if a dependency's version is set to <code>RELEASE</code> or <code>LATEST</code>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[WARNING] 'dependencies.dependency.version' for &lt;groupId>:&lt;artifactId>:jar is either LATEST or RELEASE (both of them are being deprecated)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This warning is <strong>not</strong> given if the pom's <em>parent</em> version is set to e.g. <code>RELEASE</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.mydomain&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;base&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this intentional, so that we can safely continue to rely on <code>RELEASE</code> version for the parent pom?</p>
  
  <p>Our use case is that we host a service for ~100 tenants that need a common set of profiles and some dependency management etc. This common configuration is defined in our 'base' pom which is used as parent by each tenant's pom. We need all tenants to use the same version, and the latest released version, of our parent pom.</p>