All m2 based builds that worked on 1.195 are failing with the following message
excerpt.

The same builds (if I log into the hudson slave in question) work from the
workspace if I manually execute using maven.

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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Failed to configure plugin parameters for:
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.3

Cause: Cannot find setter nor field in
org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin for 'skipTests'
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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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