Jetbrains xodus broken dependencies

Question

Recently, I faced with some build errors in my project which is using JetBrains/xodus v1.2.3. In project's pom.xml I have such dependecy

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jetbrains.xodus</groupId>
  <artifactId>xodus-environment</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.3</version>
</dependency>

But during build process I've faced with such error:

[ERROR] Version conflict for artifact org.jetbrains:annotations, selected 13.0, dependencies require 15.0

So I've checked dependency tree in IDEA. I was wondered to see such dependency tree

As you can see library org.jetbrains.xodus:xodus-environment has several dependencies on org.jetbrains:annotations first one is 13.0 and another one is 15.0.

So I solved problem with such configuration

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
  <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.51</version>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
        <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
        <artifactId>annotations</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jetbrains.xodus</groupId>
  <artifactId>xodus-environment</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.3</version>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
        <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
        <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

But I think there is better way to solve this problem or maybe it is bug in xodus library