# Nxrm3-maven-plugin Staging Plugin Does Not Update Browse Index on Delete

## post by jboss-04 on Apr 9, 2025

**David Hladky**  
**jboss-04**  
**Innovator**  
[Apr 2025](https://community.sonatype.com/t/nxrm3-maven-plugin-staging-plugin-does-not-update-browse-index-on-delete/14775 "Post date")

I am testing deployment using `org.sonatype.plugins:nxrm3-maven-plugin` as described here:

[https://help.sonatype.com/en/nexus-repository-maven-plugin.html](https://help.sonatype.com/en/nexus-repository-maven-plugin.html)

When I deploy the artifacts using `nxrm3:staging-deploy` and then delete them using the `nxrm3:staging-delete` command, the artifacts are deleted from the repository, but they remain present in the “browse index” of the repository, thus confusing anyone checking the outcome of the operation.

It is possible to schedule a task to repair browse indexes of the repository; however, this is a very expensive operation for large repositories and also it would require granting excessive permissions to people who should not have needed them in the first place.

And by the way, if repairing browse information is being done, the repository is basically unbrowseable, which means almost several hours of downtime for the public repository.

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