Maven Versioning

Identifier

maven

References

• Maven POM - Dependency version requirements
• Maven versioning explained
• Maven Enforcer - Version ranges

Ranges/Constraints

✅ Ranges are supported.

Valid rangeStrategy values are: bump, widen, pin, replace

Description

Maven versioning is similar to SemVer but also very different in places. It's specified by Maven itself.

Ranges are supported using Maven's special syntax.

For development purposes, download maven-artifact JAR and run:

$ java -jar maven-artifact-*.jar 3.2.4-alpha-1 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT 3.2.4.0
Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison result:
1. 3.2.4-alpha-1 == 3.2.4.alpha.1
   3.2.4-alpha-1 < 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT
2. 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT == 3.2.4.snapshot
   3.2.4-SNAPSHOT < 3.2.4.0
3. 3.2.4.0 == 3.2.4

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