The Versions Plugin is used when you want to manage the versions of artifacts in a project's POM.
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mvn versions:use-releases only find release in .m2 but could not find in repository
I need to replace my module's parent and dependent modules' snapshot version with release version for the process of release.
First, I run "mvn versions:set -DremoveSnapshot=true versions:commit" to remove my module's snapshot version. It works…

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Maven update component version in all components using it
My project consists of numerous (~100) components, most of them use ~10 core components. When I update a version of a core component I would like to have up-to-date version of it in every component that is using it.
Trouble is that components depend…

Gregory Olshewsky
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Offer alternatives to versions:dependency-updates-report
I have
problem
with
versions:dependency-updates-report
which I cannot solve. Maybe someone could offer some alternative which would make similar html report with those columns (Next Version, Next Incremental, Next Minor, Next Major)?

Tomas Griušys
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Maven dependency updates report takes hours to complete
I have task to run Jenkins job witch would report newer version of libraries.
I think that these would do what I…

Tomas Griušys
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Exclude release candidates in Versions Maven Plugin
How can I configure the Versions Maven Plugin to exclude release candidates of certain dependencies?
The versions of the dependencies in question have following format:
\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+(-rc\d+)? OR…

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Maven: versions:update-parent followed by install installs old version
I have the two following maven projects
pom.xml (parent)
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pom.xml (aggregate, extends parent)
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|--pom.xml (module, extends aggregate)
Only place where the artifact version is defined is the parent. Other projects or their modules inherits the…

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Does the Maven Versions Plugin read rules also from classpath?
The Maven Versions Plugin supports the defintion of rules to customize the version resolution process for goals as versions:display-plugin-updates or versions:display-dependency-updates. The location of the rules file can be specified by the…

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excludesList parameter usage in versions:update-properties
I have the following in my pom:
.
.
1.1
1.2
1.3
.
.
org.codehaus.mojo
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Maven versions plugin -- use latest, preferring snapshots
I'm not really clear on use-latest-snapshots and use-next-snapshots. Basically, I want to update a set of dependencies (not every one) to the latest. If a snapshot is available, I want to force using that instead of the release version. For…

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Maven update versions goal builds old version in Jenkins
I've got a Jenkins/maven build where we need to be able to produce release artifacts with arbitrary version numbers. The version number is passed in as a parameter to the build job. I'm using versions:set to update the version from what is in the…

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Where to run mvn versions:set for a multi-module project (with aggregator)?
I've got a multi-module maven project with a build/aggregate pom. In my project, I have a common parent pom which has a version number set, and all child modules inherit the parent version (ie: there is no version information in any of the child…

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Maven release and versions maven plugin
What is the numbering/versioning strategy for dependencies when doing snapshots/releases?
A team of 15 developers,20 Maven parent projects = total 70+ POMs including child module POMs. Currently there are a lot of dependencies where most of these…

Pulak Agrawal
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Maven versions plugin, limit versions:update-properties damage
I have a multimodule maven project, where module share dependencies. By share I mean use the same dependencies. However each module declares dependencies itself. To keep sanity (yeah, maven, sanity, I know), and to have all modules using the same…

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Maven versions plugin : where are version compared against
I'm reading about the maven versions plugin : http://mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/examples/advancing-dependency-versions.html
For this goal : "versions:use-next-releases searches the pom for all non-SNAPSHOT versions which have been a newer…

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