Configure maven-release-plugin to push version changes to git repository?

When releasing an artifact with maven-release-plugin, the changes made to the artifact version are local and not pushed to the remote git repository.

The following is the configuration I used for the maven-release-plugin:

<configuration>
    <goals>pre-integration-test</goals>
    <preparationGoals>package</preparationGoals>
    <releaseProfiles>releases</releaseProfiles>
</configuration>

I did some research and found out I need to add the following dependency maven-scm-plugin, but not sure how to configure it along with the maven release plugin.

I have solved the problem by adding the following dependency to the plugin dependencies:

 <dependencies>
    <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-scm-provider-gitexe</artifactId>
       <version>1.11.2</version>
    </dependency>
 </dependencies>

Now maven pushes the changes made to the pom.xml after running mvn release:prepare and mvn release:perform