jhack and others:

Work around (if you really, really want to use maven 3.5.0 ):

• create maven wrapper for your project (https://github.com/takari/takari-maven-plugin) 
  • mvn -N io.takari:maven:wrapper -Dmaven=3.5.0
• commit (git, hg, svn...) maven wrapper files to your project
• Freestyle projects: add/change Execute shell build step and use maven wrapper command: ./mvn clean install -Dsomething=something
• Maven projects: similar as above with these differences:
  • use Execute shell pre-step in front of a maven build block
  • trick your Maven build block :
    • revert to last good know maven version (set drop list value to 3.2.5 or 3.3.9 or whatever)
    • for Goals and options put validate or clean or --version
• Pipeline projects:  (should be easy):
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36304131/jenkins-pipeline-plugin-execute-shell-and-parse-output
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36956977/how-to-execute-a-command-in-a-jenkins-2-0-pipeline-job-and-then-return-the-stdou (disclaimer: I just recently started to play with pipelines, hence: should be)

Other options: revert your Jenkins job to previous Maven version and wait for a new Jenkins Maven Project Plugin version, although it seems that transition to recent maven versions for that plugin is not trivial... latest Jenkins Maven Project Plugin (tag 2.15.1 at the moment) uses not-so-recent version 3.1.0 for maven-core, maven-aether-provider, and similar libraries (I'm tempted to bite that bullet and if I managed to squeeze it to my schedule I definitely would ).

Related links:

• https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/pull/46 Upgrade maven to 3.2.5
• https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/blob/maven-plugin-2.15.1/pom.xml#L49 
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6110 Upgrade Aether to Maven Resolver
• https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.5.0/release-notes.html 

Opened pull requests:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-interceptors/pull/11

https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/pull/94

Rebased PR for maven-plugin is https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/pull/95

FWIW, I just installed a clean Jenkins 2.55 master server and have been seeing either:

     java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE

or 

     java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_GLOBAL_SETTINGS_FILE

I had to simply specify both a user and global settings file in the "Advanced" portion of the "Build" section.  If I left either of these settings in the default configuration I would get these errors.

Code changed in jenkins
User: Tomer Cohen
Path:
pom.xml
src/main/java/hudson/maven/Maven35ProcessFactory.java
src/main/java/hudson/maven/MavenBuild.java
src/main/java/hudson/maven/MavenModuleSetBuild.java
src/main/java/hudson/maven/MavenUtil.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-plugin/9addffc853ab178bc280ef5cecb1f4e6a07d0fe9
Log:
JENKINS-43446 - java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE

Code changed in jenkins
User: Tomer Cohen
Path:
maven35-agent/pom.xml
maven35-agent/src/main/java/jenkins/maven3/agent/Maven35Agent.java
maven35-agent/src/main/java/jenkins/maven3/agent/Maven35Main.java
maven35-agent/src/main/java/jenkins/maven3/agent/RealFilter35OutputStream.java
maven35-agent/src/main/resources/jenkins/maven3/agent/classworlds.conf
maven35-interceptor/pom.xml
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/jvnet/hudson/maven3/launcher/Maven35Interceptor.java
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/jvnet/hudson/maven3/launcher/Maven35Launcher.java
pom.xml
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-interceptors/3ee21f5e2bc450ab36158b39c1fcd47af7f6b9da
Log:
JENKINS-43446 - java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE

Code changed in jenkins
User: Tomer Cohen
Path:
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-interceptors/ef36853372aeff340f196bced2bdad49776dda66
Log:
JENKINS-43446 - java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE

Code changed in jenkins
User: Tomer Cohen
Path:
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/jvnet/hudson/maven3/launcher/Maven35Launcher.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-interceptors/62b24baa82ea08244aa556e9c9b33ba311e1acec
Log:
JENKINS-43446 - java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE - Maven 3.5 requires ClassWorld in the main method

Code changed in jenkins
User: Arnaud Heritier
Path:
maven35-agent/pom.xml
maven35-agent/src/main/java/jenkins/maven3/agent/Maven35Agent.java
maven35-agent/src/main/java/jenkins/maven3/agent/Maven35Main.java
maven35-agent/src/main/java/jenkins/maven3/agent/RealFilter35OutputStream.java
maven35-agent/src/main/resources/jenkins/maven3/agent/classworlds.conf
maven35-interceptor/pom.xml
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/jvnet/hudson/maven3/launcher/Maven35Interceptor.java
maven35-interceptor/src/main/java/org/jvnet/hudson/maven3/launcher/Maven35Launcher.java
pom.xml
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-interceptors/e1d712c322e8b681b8d3d115f47ca03b6ca36b37
Log:
Merge pull request #11 from tomerc/master

JENKINS-43446 - java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE

Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-interceptors/compare/084ed65369b2...e1d712c322e8

released in 2.16. Thx olamy

Hi. This plugin upgrade seems to have broken CPD/PMD plugins. Jenkins 2.4.x, since switching to plugin 2.16

The NPEe were already there before 2.16, but now the build really fails.
[PMD] Successfully parsed file /root/.jenkins/workspace/common/common-dep/libcti-java-plugin/target/pmd.xml of module libcti-java-plugin with 0 unique warnings and 0 duplicates.
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:392)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readInt(ObjectInputStream.java:2827)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readInt(ObjectInputStream.java:971)
at com.google.common.collect.Serialization.readCount(Serialization.java:50)
DRY] Successfully parsed file /root/.jenkins/workspace/exemplejar/target/cpd.xml of module exemplejar with 461 unique warnings and 0 duplicates.
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:392)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readInt(ObjectInputStream.java:2827)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readInt(ObjectInputStream.java:971)
at com.google.common.collect.Serialization.readCount(Serialization.java:50)

Hi laurentperez could you open another case please with more details about Jenkins core + plugins used and if possible a project to reproduce it.

Your issue seems valid but completely different from this one.

Thanks

aheritier sorry, created https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-44966

perfect. Thx laurentperez