maven release plugin ignores releaseProfile

I am using two profiles: development and production.

Development should be active on default; production should be used when I am releasing.

In my pom.xml I have:

[...]
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-beta-9</version>
<configuration>
  <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
  <goals>deploy</goals>
  <arguments>-Pproduction</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
[...]
<profiles>
  <profile>
    <id>production</id>
    <properties>
      <profile.name>production</profile.name>
    </properties>
    [...]
  </profile>
  <profile>
    <id>development</id>
    <activation>
      <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
    </activation>
    <properties>
    <profile.name>development</profile.name>
    </properties>
       [...]
  </profile>
[...]

It just does not work.
useReleaseProfiles doesn't work either: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-459

The development profile should be always active but not when running mvn release:perform. How do you achieve this?

[UPDATE]: I have seen with the debug flag that my production profile is used, but development profile is used too, because it is activeByDefault. This cant be overridden by the releaseProfile argument. It would be nice to force the release plugin to use only the "production" profile.