diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5f1cd8..559a1ea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ To have your sources automatically formatted on each build, add to your pom.xml:
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.6.0</version>
+                <version>2.8.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <goals>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ If you prefer, you can only check formatting at build time using the `check` goa
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.6.0</version>
+                <version>2.8.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <goals>
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ example:
         <plugin>
             <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
             <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6.0</version>
+            <version>2.8.0</version>
             <configuration>
                 <sourceDirectory>some/source/directory</sourceDirectory>
                 <testSourceDirectory>some/test/directory</testSourceDirectory>
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ example to not display the non-compliant files:
         <plugin>
             <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
             <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6.0</version>
+            <version>2.8.0</version>
             <configuration>
                 <displayFiles>false</displayFiles>
             </configuration>
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ example to limit the display up to 10 files
         <plugin>
             <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
             <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6.0</version>
+            <version>2.8.0</version>
             <configuration>
                 <displayLimit>10</displayLimit>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f453e47..83f8948 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
     <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-    <version>2.7</version>
+    <version>2.8</version>
     <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
 
     <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
diff --git a/pom.xml.versionsBackup b/pom.xml.versionsBackup
deleted file mode 100644
index d1a96fc..0000000
--- a/pom.xml.versionsBackup
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,230 +0,0 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-    <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
-    <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-    <version>2.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
-
-    <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
-
-    <description>Maven Plugin that formats a project's Java Code following google-java-format</description>
-    <url>http://github.com/coveo/fmt-maven-plugin</url>
-
-    <licenses>
-        <license>
-            <name>MIT License</name>
-            <url>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php</url>
-        </license>
-    </licenses>
-
-    <developers>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean</name>
-            <organization>Coveo</organization>
-            <organizationUrl>http://github.com/coveo</organizationUrl>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Guillaume Simard</name>
-            <organization>Coveo</organization>
-            <organizationUrl>http://github.com/coveo</organizationUrl>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Martin Laporte</name>
-            <organization>Coveo</organization>
-            <organizationUrl>http://github.com/coveo</organizationUrl>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Andy Emond</name>
-            <organization>Coveo</organization>
-            <organizationUrl>http://github.com/coveo</organizationUrl>
-        </developer>
-    </developers>
-
-    <scm>
-        <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:coveo/fmt-maven-plugin.git</connection>
-        <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:coveo/fmt-maven-plugin.git</developerConnection>
-        <url>http://github.com/coveo/fmt-maven-plugin</url>
-    </scm>
-
-    <distributionManagement>
-        <snapshotRepository>
-            <id>ossrh</id>
-            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-        </snapshotRepository>
-        <repository>
-            <id>ossrh</id>
-            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
-        </repository>
-    </distributionManagement>
-
-    <properties>
-        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-
-        <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
-    </properties>
-
-    <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-            <version>3.3.9</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
-            <version>3.4</version>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.google.googlejavaformat</groupId>
-            <artifactId>google-java-format</artifactId>
-            <version>1.6</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.12</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-testing</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-plugin-testing-harness</artifactId>
-            <version>3.3.0</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
-            <version>3.3.9</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compat</artifactId>
-            <version>3.3.9</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.google.truth</groupId>
-            <artifactId>truth</artifactId>
-            <version>0.28</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-    </dependencies>
-
-    <build>
-        <plugins>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.4</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <goalPrefix>fmt</goalPrefix>
-                    <skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>true</skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>
-                </configuration>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>mojo-descriptor</id>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>descriptor</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>help-goal</id>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>helpmojo</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
-                <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.2.0</version>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>format</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <configuration>
-                    <source>1.8</source>
-                    <target>1.8</target>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-    </build>
-
-    <profiles>
-        <profile>
-            <id>release</id>
-            <build>
-                <plugins>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.0.0</version>
-                        <configuration>
-                        </configuration>
-                        <executions>
-                            <execution>
-                                <id>attach-sources</id>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </execution>
-                        </executions>
-                    </plugin>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.10.3</version>
-                        <executions>
-                            <execution>
-                                <id>attach-javadocs</id>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>jar</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </execution>
-                        </executions>
-                    </plugin>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.6.6</version>
-                        <extensions>true</extensions>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
-                            <nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
-                            <autoReleaseAfterClose>true</autoReleaseAfterClose>
-                        </configuration>
-                    </plugin>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.6</version>
-                        <executions>
-                            <execution>
-                                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
-                                <phase>verify</phase>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>sign</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </execution>
-                        </executions>
-                    </plugin>
-                </plugins>
-            </build>
-        </profile>
-    </profiles>
-
-</project>