The Versions Plugin is used when you want to manage the versions of artifacts in a project's POM.
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Update specific Parent POMs
I have several POMs in my project and a few of them have parent pointing to an artifact outside my repository. So when I release this, I should have different versions for my parent and my project.
I need to search that for POMs with "com.mycompany"…

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Maven versions plugin: use "ignore" rules from parent project
Preface: I've taken over a historically grown multi-module maven project. Now it's time to clean up the dependency versions. Since using version ranges has its problems (first of all, they don't work according to specs; second, they remove the…

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maven update version number automatically with buildNumber plugin
After watching some videos about setting up CI & CD and maven I tried to find the right order of how to use maven plugins in the release process.
I set up a CI & CD chain before but it was with gradle, so the part that is the most confusing to me is…

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Maven: pin dependency version where dependency is managed by a BOM
We use a Maven BOM to manage dependencies of a suite of libraries. The dependencyManagement section of the BOM generally uses version ranges to specify versions of these libraries, e.g., [2.0,2.1) Child pom.xml's using the BOM do not specify…

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Maven - Artifactory: update dependencies with buildNumber
I have started to working at a company where they use the buildNumber concept. They open a release branch, with version set to 1.0.2-build1 for example.
The next time they generate the artifact and deploy it, they increment this number, so…

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Strange maven version ranges in versions-maven-plugin
I have see ranges from [1.1,2.0) or [1.1,)
but what does this mean:
org.codehaus.mojo
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Versions Maven Plugin: package not found after versions:use-latest-versions
When I execute in my Maven project the Versions Maven Plugin plugin with the command:
mvn versions:use-latest-versions
The pom.xml is updated with updated dependencies as it is supposed to do.
The problem is that some libraries are updated to…

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Not seeing latest dependency version when I run versions:display-dependency-updates
I am trying to update dependencies in my java mvn project to latest version. When I run below command I see latest versions displayed, but I see different versions in central repository.
mvn versions:display-dependency-updates -DskipTests=true…

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How to tell mavens versions plugin to not use beta versions?
I would like to comment on Tim's answer here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/1172805/1746310) but because of my reputation I can't, I wrote it as an answer, saying that I wanted to comment, but can't because of my reputation. That message then got…

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How to make versions-maven-plugin update maven-metadata-*.xml update before getting the latest artifact versions?
I am using versions-maven-plugin to automatically find latest release/snapshot versions of maven artifacts, found in many different nexus repositories.
It seems like the plugin is using the maven-metadata-$REPO.xml (where $REPO is id for a…

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How to ignore SNAPSHOTs on Maven versions:set?
I would like to have Maven build Java projects on our Jenkins server. The version should be set correctly in the pom.xml. For this I use in the PreBuild Step:
mvn build-helper:parse-version versions:set…

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Dependency tree doesn't give versions-maven-plugin source
I am using below command to identify versions-maven-plugin source, since the specified plugin has not been directly defined in the project. But it doesn't show any details related to the said plugin.
mvn dependency:tree
However below command gives…

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Maven Versions plugin skips some dependencies
I experienced that the Maven Versions plugin does not check every version property when running mvn versions:display-property-updates. It is noticeable that most of them are plugins.

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report an update in parent version to sonar or jenkins
When a maven build has a parent that is not the latest release version, the goal of the versions plugin display-parent-updates is reporting it nicely but I would like to report this somehow:
mark the build with a WARNING or UNSTABLE status (to have…

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Using maven plugin versions-maven-plugin's use-latest-releases for latest releases
Used < goal> use-latest-releases goal> for newer release(all non-SNAPSHOT) and replaces pom's version with the latest releases.
I have added dependency(on which current project is dependent) in the pom.xml with < version> [anyVersionNumber] <…

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