Overview
Examples
- Advancing dependency versions
- Comparing remote dependencies
- Checking for new dependency updates
- Checking for new plugin updates
- Checking for new property-linked updates
- Updating the Parent version
- Updating a version specified in a property
- Fixing a multi-module build
- Resolve version ranges
- Locking snapshot dependencies
- Unlocking snapshot dependencies
- Replacing -SNAPSHOT versions with their corresponding releases
- Changing the project version
Reference
Project Documentation
Maven 2.x Versions Plugin changelog
Release History
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1-SNAPSHOT | Second GA release | |
| 1.0 | 2009-08-23 | First GA release |
| 1.0-alpha-3 | 2009-04-23 | Third alpha release |
| 1.0-alpha-2 | 2008-12-05 | Second alpha release |
| 1.0-alpha-1 | 2008-09-05 | First alpha release |
Release 1.1-SNAPSHOT - null
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
 | Fixed reports when running on maven 2.1.0 Fixes MVERSIONS-66. | stephenconnolly |
| Added matrix to advancing dependency versions page Fixes MVERSIONS-73. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed plugin comparators to handle reporting plugins Fixes MVERSIONS-67. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed update-properties when version specified in config Fixes MVERSIONS-80. Thanks to Julien Henry. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed versions:set to only update parent refs when the child has a different version Fixes MVERSIONS-71. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed encoding issues with pom.xml parsing Fixes MVERSIONS-72. | hboutemy |
| Fixed some typos and spelling mistakes Fixes MVERSIONS-75. | olamy |
Release 1.0 - 2009-08-23
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Removed the display-dependency-updates-report and replaced with dependency-updates-report Fixes MVERSIONS-50. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed versions:display-plugin-updates Fixes MVERSIONS-59. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed it-display-dependency-updates-report-001 Fixes MVERSIONS-46. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed it-display-plugin-updates-004 Fixes MVERSIONS-47. | aheritier |
| Fixed it-update-properties-004 Fixes MVERSIONS-48. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed NPE in versions:dependency-updates-report Fixes MVERSIONS-60. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed it-dependency-updates-report-001 Fixes MVERSIONS-61. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed it-plugin-updates-report-001 Fixes MVERSIONS-62. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed it-update-properties-005 Fixes MVERSIONS-63. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed NPE in update-properties if a property is configured for updating but is not defined in the pom Fixes MVERSIONS-39. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed use-latest-version to follow allowSnapshots Fixes MVERSIONS-45. Thanks to Tom Folga. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed versions:set for Projects with No Dependencies Fixes MVERSIONS-44. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed Rulessets loading from http uri's Fixes MVERSIONS-38. | stephenconnolly |
 | Updated site documentation to reflect new mojos and reports Fixes MVERSIONS-65. | stephenconnolly |
| Added versions:set Fixes MVERSIONS-43. | stephenconnolly |
| Added support for version ranges in includes/excludes filters Fixes MVERSIONS-52. Thanks to Benoit Lafontaine. | aheritier |
| Added dependency-updates-report Fixes MVERSIONS-9. | stephenconnolly |
| Added use-next-snapshots Fixes MVERSIONS-29. | stephenconnolly |
| Added display-property-updates Fixes MVERSIONS-64. | stephenconnolly |
| Added plugin-updates-report Fixes MVERSIONS-53. | stephenconnolly |
| Added property-updates-report Fixes MVERSIONS-56. | stephenconnolly |
| Refactored display-dependency-updates to use common code with reports Fixes MVERSIONS-57. | stephenconnolly |
| Added recurse support to update-child-modules Fixes MVERSIONS-40. | stephenconnolly |
Release 1.0-alpha-3 - 2009-04-23
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Enable resolution of dependency version ranges Fixes MVERSIONS-24. | pgier |
| Add mojo to lock snapshots to timestamp version Fixes MVERSIONS-21. | stephenconnolly |
| display-plugin-updates now identifys the plugin version as not being provided when derived from the super-pom Fixes MVERSIONS-3. | stephenconnolly |
| Property Placedholders no longer output in versions:display-plugin-updates Fixes MVERSIONS-8. | stephenconnolly |
| display-plugin-updates now can differentate between that version is not defined if same versio as in parent pom is defined Fixes MVERSIONS-8. | stephenconnolly |
| Add comparisonMethod=mercury Fixes MVERSIONS-8. | stephenconnolly |
| Expose updated versions as a report Fixes MVERSIONS-18. Thanks to mbeerman. | stephenconnolly |
 | Fixed site documentation. Fixes MVERSIONS-12. | stephenconnolly |
Release 1.0-alpha-2 - 2008-12-05
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Implemented update-child-modules mojo. Fixes MVERSIONS-5. | stephenconnolly |
| Fixed how properties get updated so that more than one property can be updated in a pom by a single execution of update-properties mojo. Fixes MVERSIONS-8. | stephenconnolly |
| Implemented auto-detection of properties for the update-properties mojo. | stephenconnolly |
| Implemented integration tests for four of the mojos. | stephenconnolly |
| Updated project site documentation. | stephenconnolly |
Release 1.0-alpha-1 - 2008-09-05
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Rewrote the plugin detection code to correctly identify the current version of a plugin that is in use. Fixes MVERSIONS-1. | stephenconnolly |
| Updated the plugin detection code to add plugins from the project lifecycle. Fixes MVERSIONS-2. | stephenconnolly |
| Upgraned to mojo-parent version 18. | dennisl |
| Updated the site documentation. | stephenconnolly |
| Refactored plugin parameters to ensure that they only apply to the goals to which they apply. | dennisl |