diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.ant/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.jgit.ant/pom.xml
index a1d51cb83..1a445ea87 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.ant/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.ant/pom.xml
@@ -102,24 +102,92 @@
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 
-			<plugin>
-				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-				<artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-			</plugin>
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+             <phase>verify</phase>
+             <goals>
+               <goal>cmp</goal>
+             </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
 		</plugins>
 	</build>
 
 	<reporting>
-		<plugins>
-			<plugin>
-				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-				<artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>${clirr-version}</version>
-				<configuration>
-					<comparisonVersion>${jgit-last-release-version}</comparisonVersion>
-					<minSeverity>info</minSeverity>
-				</configuration>
-			</plugin>
-		</plugins>
-	</reporting>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <reportSets>
+              <reportSet>
+                  <reports>
+                      <report>cmp-report</report>
+                  </reports>
+              </reportSet>
+          </reportSets>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </reporting>
 </project>
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/pom.xml
index 24371095b..c93da4bf4 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.archive/pom.xml
@@ -106,6 +106,93 @@
           </archive>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
+
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+             <phase>verify</phase>
+             <goals>
+               <goal>cmp</goal>
+             </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
+
+  <reporting>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <reportSets>
+              <reportSet>
+                  <reports>
+                      <report>cmp-report</report>
+                  </reports>
+              </reportSet>
+          </reportSets>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </reporting>
 </project>
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/pom.xml
index 2fd032d9f..68d3c2269 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/pom.xml
@@ -96,24 +96,92 @@
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 
-			<plugin>
-				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-				<artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-			</plugin>
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+             <phase>verify</phase>
+             <goals>
+               <goal>cmp</goal>
+             </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
 		</plugins>
 	</build>
 
 	<reporting>
-		<plugins>
-			<plugin>
-				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-				<artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>${clirr-version}</version>
-				<configuration>
-					<comparisonVersion>${jgit-last-release-version}</comparisonVersion>
-					<minSeverity>info</minSeverity>
-				</configuration>
-			</plugin>
-		</plugins>
-	</reporting>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <reportSets>
+              <reportSet>
+                  <reports>
+                      <report>cmp-report</report>
+                  </reports>
+              </reportSet>
+          </reportSets>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </reporting>
 </project>
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/pom.xml
index 5d386dc75..9859a1d12 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/pom.xml
@@ -127,8 +127,45 @@
       </plugin>
 
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+             <phase>verify</phase>
+             <goals>
+               <goal>cmp</goal>
+             </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
@@ -136,13 +173,44 @@
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${clirr-version}</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <comparisonVersion>${jgit-last-release-version}</comparisonVersion>
-          <minSeverity>info</minSeverity>
-        </configuration>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <reportSets>
+              <reportSet>
+                  <reports>
+                      <report>cmp-report</report>
+                  </reports>
+              </reportSet>
+          </reportSets>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </reporting>
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.jgit/pom.xml
index 14b54e321..1eac7e499 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/pom.xml
@@ -166,8 +166,45 @@
       </plugin>
 
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+             <phase>verify</phase>
+             <goals>
+               <goal>cmp</goal>
+             </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
 
@@ -187,13 +224,44 @@
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${clirr-version}</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <comparisonVersion>${jgit-last-release-version}</comparisonVersion>
-          <minSeverity>info</minSeverity>
-        </configuration>
+          <groupId>com.github.siom79.japicmp</groupId>
+          <artifactId>japicmp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${japicmp-version}</version>
+          <reportSets>
+              <reportSet>
+                  <reports>
+                      <report>cmp-report</report>
+                  </reports>
+              </reportSet>
+          </reportSets>
+          <configuration>
+              <oldVersion>
+                  <dependency>
+                      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                      <version>${jgit-last-release-version}</version>
+                  </dependency>
+              </oldVersion>
+              <newVersion>
+                  <file>
+                      <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</path>
+                  </file>
+              </newVersion>
+              <parameter>
+                  <onlyModified>true</onlyModified>
+                  <includes>
+                      <include>org.eclipse.jgit.*</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <accessModifier>public</accessModifier>
+                  <breakBuildOnModifications>false</breakBuildOnModifications>
+                  <breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>false</breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications>
+                  <onlyBinaryIncompatible>false</onlyBinaryIncompatible>
+                  <includeSynthetic>false</includeSynthetic>
+                  <ignoreMissingClasses>false</ignoreMissingClasses>
+                  <skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>
+              </parameter>
+              <skip>false</skip>
+          </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </reporting>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 954a25930..961754b83 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
     <osgi-core-version>4.3.1</osgi-core-version>
     <servlet-api-version>3.1.0</servlet-api-version>
     <jetty-version>9.2.13.v20150730</jetty-version>
-    <clirr-version>2.6.1</clirr-version>
+    <japicmp-version>0.5.3</japicmp-version>
     <httpclient-version>4.3.6</httpclient-version>
     <slf4j-version>1.7.2</slf4j-version>
     <log4j-version>1.2.15</log4j-version>
@@ -354,16 +354,6 @@
           </executions>
         </plugin>
 
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-          <artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>${clirr-version}</version>
-          <configuration>
-            <comparisonVersion>${jgit-last-release-version}</comparisonVersion>
-            <minSeverity>info</minSeverity>
-          </configuration>
-        </plugin>
-
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.eclipse.cbi.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>eclipse-jarsigner-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -530,10 +520,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>