Maven build error: “Caused by: java.io.IOException: Incompatible version 1007”

I was encountering this error in Jenkins when it tried to build a project I was working on:


Caused by: java.io.IOException: Incompatible version 1007.
at org.jacoco.core.data.ExecutionDataReader.readHeader(ExecutionDataReader.java:127)
at org.jacoco.core.data.ExecutionDataReader.readBlock(ExecutionDataReader.java:107)
at org.jacoco.core.data.ExecutionDataReader.read(ExecutionDataReader.java:87)
at org.sonar.plugins.jacoco.AbstractAnalyzer.readExecutionData(AbstractAnalyzer.java:134)
at org.sonar.plugins.jacoco.AbstractAnalyzer.analyse(AbstractAnalyzer.java:107)


The problem was due to a breakage/bug in the jacoco-maven-plugin. To fix, simply add a version in your pom.xml, like so:

org.jacoco
jacoco-maven-plugin
0.7.4.201502262128



prepare-agent




That’s it!