From 550f0c90fca9f4ba6a983579828dab81456b19db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Nodet <gnodet@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:33:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Restore compatibility for the maven-release-plugin

---
 .../org/apache/maven/settings/SettingsUtils.java     | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/settings/SettingsUtils.java b/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/settings/SettingsUtils.java
index bbdd85e6bc..d6d65a75e3 100644
--- a/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/settings/SettingsUtils.java
+++ b/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/settings/SettingsUtils.java
@@ -295,4 +295,16 @@ public final class SettingsUtils
         return policy;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param settings could be null
+     * @return a new instance of settings or null if settings was null.
+     */
+    public static org.apache.maven.settings.Settings copySettings( org.apache.maven.settings.Settings settings )
+    {
+        if ( settings == null )
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return new org.apache.maven.settings.Settings( settings.getDelegate() );
+    }
 }