Release plugin 2.4.2 ignores pushChanges=false

Is it me or does the maven-release-plugin ignore the pushChanges setting?

Running the release process actually pushes the changes to the git
repo. And I *really* don't want that to happen.

Relevant configuration:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.2</version>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<configuration>
<pushChanges>false</pushChanges>
<tagNameFormat>wicket-@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
<updateWorkingCopyVersions>false</updateWorkingCopyVersions>
</configuration>
</plugin>

$ git --version
git version 1.8.5.2

$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.1.1 (0728685237757ffbf44136acec0402957f723d9a;
2013-09-17 17:22:22+0200)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.1.1/libexec
Java version: 1.7.0_45, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.9.1", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"