I have a build that runs just fine in jenkins 1.651 with v1.2.2 of the Docker build plugin, but fails on Jenkins 2.7.2 with v1.3.1 of the plugin.

The echo "Nothing to build or tag." is triggered on both builds, but on the one running on the latest Jenkins and plugin version it is tacked on to the docker command that normally runs a bit later.

Build that fails:

[INFO] — docker-maven-plugin:0.4.9:build (default-cli) @ spine —
[INFO] Copying /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war -> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/docker/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war
[INFO] Copying src/docker/Dockerfile -> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/docker/Dockerfile
[INFO] Building image storydocks/tb-spine
Step 1 : FROM java:8
---> a7919ba82fd0
Step 2 : VOLUME /tmp
---> Using cache
---> 18dfc62824fe
Step 3 : ENV SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE staging
---> Using cache
---> 958841d765db
Step 4 : ADD spine-*.war spine.war
---> 66d09d10db36
Removing intermediate container c6b86dd9ca11
Step 5 : RUN bash -c 'touch /spine.war'
---> Running in 8eb27f47c367
---> 76a2be383e50
Removing intermediate container 8eb27f47c367
Step 6 : ENTRYPOINT java -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Xmx750M -Xms750M -jar /spine.war
---> Running in fa62e3035d37
---> d2ac457a92a0
Removing intermediate container fa62e3035d37
Successfully built d2ac457a92a0
[INFO] Built storydocks/tb-spine
[INFO] Tagging storydocks/tb-spine with 0.0.21-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 03:45 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-08-09T11:39:12+00:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 132M/470M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data
[JENKINS] Archiving /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/pom.xml to com.tigerbooks.spine/spine/0.0.21-SNAPSHOT/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.pom
[JENKINS] Archiving /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war to com.tigerbooks.spine/spine/0.0.21-SNAPSHOT/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war
channel stopped
[tigerbooks-develop-build] $ docker echo "Nothing to build or tag"
docker: 'echo' is not a docker command.
See 'docker --help'.
Build step 'Docker Build and Publish' marked build as failure
[BFA] Scanning build for known causes...
[BFA] No failure causes found
[BFA] Done. 0s
Warning: you have no plugins providing access control for builds, so falling back to legacy behavior of permitting any downstream builds to be triggered
Finished: FAILURE

Build that completes correctly:

[INFO] Copying /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war -> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/docker/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war
[INFO] Copying src/docker/Dockerfile -> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/docker/Dockerfile
[INFO] Building image storydocks/tb-spine
Step 1 : FROM java:8
Pulling from library/java
Digest: sha256:65a1d04d3e2464af0a523ba0b1d23f5bbffd394215497d393fd3a1bc8e043c27
Status: Downloaded newer image for java:8
---> 289bdffc37d7
Step 2 : VOLUME /tmp
---> Using cache
---> 23883e610707
Step 3 : ENV SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE staging
---> Using cache
---> 40fbfee9548b
Step 4 : ADD spine-*.war spine.war
---> 5ccdc634a3dd
Removing intermediate container 3e5e753a29aa
Step 5 : RUN bash -c 'touch /spine.war'
---> Running in 92e23e249cda
---> b6d7b37cf99d
Removing intermediate container 92e23e249cda
Step 6 : ENTRYPOINT java -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Xmx750M -Xms750M -jar /spine.war
---> Running in 3c2978f4a1dc
---> 46d7fe01ccb3
Removing intermediate container 3c2978f4a1dc
Successfully built 46d7fe01ccb3
[INFO] Built storydocks/tb-spine
[INFO] Tagging storydocks/tb-spine with 0.0.21-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 05:03 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-08-03T14:10:51+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 119M/447M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data
[JENKINS] Archiving /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/pom.xml to com.tigerbooks.spine/spine/0.0.21-SNAPSHOT/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.pom
[JENKINS] Archiving /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/tigerbooks-develop-build/target/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war to com.tigerbooks.spine/spine/0.0.21-SNAPSHOT/spine-0.0.21-SNAPSHOT.war
channel stopped
[tigerbooks-develop-build] $ echo "Nothing to build or tag"
Nothing to build or tag
[tigerbooks-develop-build] $ docker push storydocks/tb-spine
The push refers to a repository [docker.io/storydocks/tb-spine] (len: 2)
46d7fe01ccb3: Preparing
46d7fe01ccb3: Pushing
46d7fe01ccb3: Pushed
b6d7b37cf99d: Preparing
b6d7b37cf99d: Pushing
b6d7b37cf99d: Pushed
5ccdc634a3dd: Preparing
5ccdc634a3dd: Pushing
5ccdc634a3dd: Pushed
289bdffc37d7: Image already exists
5d7cc49c4372: Image already exists
cd02ed4609aa: Image already exists
6331ed9a346a: Image already exists
f23012d4423e: Image already exists
0d3e866c82f3: Image already exists
c28cbef85c39: Image already exists
17bd2058e0c6: Image already exists
0.0.21-SNAPSHOT: digest: sha256:08b9feb95eb887e28d0a46562212b7467bc37498fd1fe9c1084ebd91e3d78f0a size: 19033
latest: digest: sha256:bcbc46fe73f447cfdd95bdec76956516ce92dabac3f8ca28b31bebd766514750 size: 19024
Warning: you have no plugins providing access control for builds, so falling back to legacy behavior of permitting any downstream builds to be triggered
tigerbooks-develop-deploy is disabled. Triggering skipped
Finished: SUCCESS