Quarkus 3.20 LTS does not handle pom.xml quarkus.application.version the same way as 3.15 LTS #48257
Description
Describe the bug
When setting quarkus.application.version as a property in pom.xml, Quarkus versions prior to 3.18 allowed interpolation of other (even dynamically generated) property values. Since 3.18 this no longer works and config property resolution fails.
Expected behavior
The configuration property should be resolved the same way that it was previously.
Actual behavior
2025-06-05 15:41:24,088 INFO [io.qua.dep.dev.IsolatedDevModeMain] (main) Attempting to start live reload endpoint to recover from previous Quarkus startup failure
Failed to load config value of type class java.lang.String for: quarkus.application.version
2025-06-05 15:41:25,830 ERROR [io.qua.dep.dev.IsolatedDevModeMain] (vert.x-worker-thread-2) Failed to start quarkus: io.quarkus.dev.appstate.ApplicationStartException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to start quarkus
at io.quarkus.dev.appstate.ApplicationStateNotification.waitForApplicationStart(ApplicationStateNotification.java:63)
at io.quarkus.runner.bootstrap.StartupActionImpl.runMainClass(StartupActionImpl.java:142)
at io.quarkus.deployment.dev.IsolatedDevModeMain.restartApp(IsolatedDevModeMain.java:202)
at io.quarkus.deployment.dev.IsolatedDevModeMain.restartCallback(IsolatedDevModeMain.java:183)
at io.quarkus.deployment.dev.RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.doScan(RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.java:555)
at io.quarkus.deployment.dev.RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.doScan(RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.java:455)
at io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.devmode.VertxHttpHotReplacementSetup$6.call(VertxHttpHotReplacementSetup.java:163)
at io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.devmode.VertxHttpHotReplacementSetup$6.call(VertxHttpHotReplacementSetup.java:150)
at io.vertx.core.impl.ContextImpl.lambda$executeBlocking$4(ContextImpl.java:192)
at io.vertx.core.impl.ContextInternal.dispatch(ContextInternal.java:270)
at io.vertx.core.impl.ContextImpl$1.execute(ContextImpl.java:221)
at io.vertx.core.impl.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:56)
at org.jboss.threads.ContextHandler$1.runWith(ContextHandler.java:18)
at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$Task.doRunWith(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:2675)
at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$Task.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:2654)
at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1591)
at org.jboss.threads.DelegatingRunnable.run(DelegatingRunnable.java:11)
at org.jboss.threads.ThreadLocalResettingRunnable.run(ThreadLocalResettingRunnable.java:11)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to start quarkus
at io.quarkus.runner.ApplicationImpl.doStart(Unknown Source)
at io.quarkus.runtime.Application.start(Application.java:101)
at io.quarkus.runtime.ApplicationLifecycleManager.run(ApplicationLifecycleManager.java:121)
at io.quarkus.runtime.Quarkus.run(Quarkus.java:77)
at io.quarkus.runtime.Quarkus.run(Quarkus.java:48)
at io.quarkus.runtime.Quarkus.run(Quarkus.java:137)
at io.quarkus.runner.GeneratedMain.main(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:580)
at io.quarkus.runner.bootstrap.StartupActionImpl$1.run(StartupActionImpl.java:116)
... 1 more
Caused by: jakarta.enterprise.inject.spi.DeploymentException: io.quarkus.runtime.configuration.ConfigurationException: Failed to load config value of type class java.lang.String for: quarkus.application.version
at io.quarkus.arc.runtime.ConfigRecorder.validateConfigProperties(ConfigRecorder.java:70)
at io.quarkus.runner.recorded.ConfigBuildStep$validateRuntimeConfigProperty1282080724.deploy_0(Unknown Source)
at io.quarkus.runner.recorded.ConfigBuildStep$validateRuntimeConfigProperty1282080724.deploy(Unknown Source)
... 11 more
Suppressed: java.util.NoSuchElementException: SRCFG00011: Could not expand value app.imageVersionLower in property quarkus.application.version
at io.smallrye.config.ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor$1.accept(ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor.java:94)
at io.smallrye.config.ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor$1.accept(ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor.java:71)
at io.smallrye.common.expression.ExpressionNode.emit(ExpressionNode.java:22)
at io.smallrye.common.expression.Expression.evaluateException(Expression.java:56)
at io.smallrye.common.expression.Expression.evaluate(Expression.java:70)
at io.smallrye.config.ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor.getValue(ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor.java:71)
at io.smallrye.config.ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor.getValue(ExpressionConfigSourceInterceptor.java:45)
at io.smallrye.config.SmallRyeConfig$SmallRyeConfigSourceInterceptorContext.proceed(SmallRyeConfig.java:1223)
at io.smallrye.config.FallbackConfigSourceInterceptor.getValue(FallbackConfigSourceInterceptor.java:24)
at io.smallrye.config.SmallRyeConfig$SmallRyeConfigSourceInterceptorContext.proceed(SmallRyeConfig.java:1223)
at io.smallrye.config.SmallRyeConfig.getConfigValue(SmallRyeConfig.java:520)
at io.smallrye.config.inject.ConfigProducerUtil.lambda$getConfigValue$2(ConfigProducerUtil.java:170)
at io.smallrye.config.SecretKeys.doUnlocked(SecretKeys.java:28)
at io.smallrye.config.inject.ConfigProducerUtil.getConfigValue(ConfigProducerUtil.java:170)
at io.smallrye.config.inject.ConfigProducerUtil.getValue(ConfigProducerUtil.java:91)
at io.quarkus.arc.runtime.ConfigRecorder.validateConfigProperties(ConfigRecorder.java:60)
... 13 more
Caused by: io.quarkus.runtime.configuration.ConfigurationException: Failed to load config value of type class java.lang.String for: quarkus.application.version
... 14 more
How to Reproduce?
See https://github.com/andrewazores/quarkus-3.20-sysprop-substitution
Output of uname -a or ver
No response
Output of java -version
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Quarkus version or git rev
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Build tool (ie. output of mvnw --version or gradlew --version)
No response
Additional information
The actual use case where I encountered this is in https://github.com/cryostat/cryostat . We use a similar cryostat.imageVersionLower trick in the pom.xml using the same build-helper-maven-plugin. The reason to do that is that we also have this in the application.properties:
quarkus.application.name=cryostat
quarkus.container-image.build=true
quarkus.container-image.push=false
quarkus.container-image.registry=quay.io
quarkus.container-image.group=cryostat
quarkus.container-image.name=cryostat
quarkus.container-image.tag=${quarkus.application.version}
quarkus.container-image.additional-tags=dev,latest
ie we want to use a lowercased form of the pom.xml <version> as a container image tag, ex. 4.1.0-snapshot. This has been working in Cryostat for a long time, but now that I am upgrading from Quarkus 3.15 to 3.20 I am hitting this issue.