Nitrogen and Oxygen autorelease is failing due to this regression.

sfc-openflopw-utils unit test fail:

03:44:25 org.junit.ComparisonFailure: Error message does not match expected:<... required pattern "^[[0-9a-fA-F]
Unknown macro: {2}
(:[0-9a-fA-F]

){5}]$"> but was:<... required pattern "^[(?:[0-9a-fA-F]
Unknown macro: {2}
(:[0-9a-fA-F]

){5})]$">03:44:25 at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:115)03:44:25 at org.opendaylight.sfc.util.openflow.SfcOpenflowUtilsTest.shouldThrowExceptionForCreateSetAction(SfcOpenflowUtilsTest.java:171)03:44:25 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source)03:44:25 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)03:44:25 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)03:44:25 at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)03:44:25 at junitparams.internal.InvokeParameterisedMethod.evaluate(InvokeParameterisedMethod.java:209)03:44:25 at junitparams.internal.ParameterisedTestMethodRunner.runMethodInvoker(ParameterisedTestMethodRunner.java:49)03:44:25 at junitparams.internal.ParameterisedTestMethodRunner.runTestMethod(ParameterisedTestMethodRunner.java:42)03:44:25 at junitparams.internal.ParameterisedTestClassRunner.runParameterisedTest(ParameterisedTestClassRunner.java:143)03:44:25 at junitparams.JUnitParamsRunner.runChild(JUnitParamsRunner.java:393)03:44:25 at junitparams.JUnitParamsRunner.runChild(JUnitParamsRunner.java:371)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)03:44:25 at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:283)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeWithRerun(JUnit4Provider.java:173)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:153)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:128)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:203)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:155)03:44:25 at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:103)