Could not transfer artifact (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Received fatal alert: protocol_version -> [Help 1]

I am new to Maven and trying to setup my first project in Maven, but receiving the below error message when I am doing "Run as → Maven install" in Eclipse. Below is my settings.xml and pom.xml.

Settings.xml

    <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                      https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
 <localRepository>C:\Users\Iam\.m2\repository</localRepository>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>central</id>
        <url>http://central.maven.org/maven2/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</settings>

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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.mytest</groupId> 
  <artifactId>MySpringBootMaven</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.11.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    

<build>
    <plugins>
    
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
            
        
        <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.5</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$-->
                <configuration>
                    <warnName>Test.war</warnName>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
    </plugins>
    
</build>
</project>

Error message:

at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactDescriptorException: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:jar:1.5.11.RELEASE
    at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.loadPom(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:302)
    at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.readArtifactDescriptor(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:218)
    at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultRepositorySystem.readArtifactDescriptor(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:287)
    at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.resolve(DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.java:103)
    ... 27 more
Caused by: org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Could not transfer artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:pom:1.5.11.RELEASE from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Received fatal alert: protocol_version
    at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:444)
    at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifacts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:246)
    at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:223)
    at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.loadPom(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:287)
    ... 30 more
Caused by: org.eclipse.aether.transfer.ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:pom:1.5.11.RELEASE from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Received fatal alert: protocol_version

How to resolve the Received fatal alert: protocol_version? My Java version is 1.7 and Maven version is 3.3.3.

Sonatype no longer supports TLSv1.1 and below (effective, June 18th, 2018). My guess is that you are using TLSv1.1 protocol or below.

The documentation I listed gives you 4 options:

1. Upgrade your Java runtime, for example with OpenJDK builds or Oracle paying support
2. Configure your Java runtime to enable TLS 1.2 by adding -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2
3. Use a repository manager that uses a Java version supporting TLS 1.2
4. Revert back to http until you can acheive one of the above remediation steps.

I fixed it myself by just using -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2 as a VM argument.