WSO2 Release helper plugin fails in release:prepare phase

[Drifftr]

When trying to run WSO2 release helper plugin to do a release, it fails with this error in release:prepare phase

[INFO] [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.wso2.maven:wso2-release-helper-plugin:1.0.1:prepare-snapshots (default-cli) on project ESBPlugin: Error occurred while updating artifact versions. Project: /home/heshitha/Desktop/DevTools/Support/NIJIFRDEV-136/othertest/ESBConfig/pom.xml Goal: prepare-snapshots: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[5,13] [INFO] [ERROR] Message: Content is not allowed in trailing section.

However when we resume the release(After failing), it executes without an error. This fails at the first iteration only. From a debug session identified that this occurs when updating artifact.xml to the next development version. The file reading fails at UTF8Reader.java read() method in xerces parser where it corrupts the xml in the buffer and reads some further bites even when EOF is reached.