The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the Versions Maven Plugin, version 1.0-alpha-2.
This plugin allows: * the querying for newer versions of plugins used in a project. * the querying for newer versions of dependencies used in a project. * updating a project's parent to the latest available version (e.g. useful for syncing with corporate poms to ensure the latest is used prior to rolling a release) * updating properties defined in a project to the latest version of a specific artifact (e.g. for ensuring that a suite of dependencies are all the same version) * fixing a multi-module build when the child projects reference an different version of the parent http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/ You can run mvn -up to get the latest version of the plugin, or specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.0-alpha-2</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Versions Plugin - Version 1.0-alpha-2 Bug * MVERSIONS-8 - If multiple properties require updating, only the first gets updated by versions:update-properties Improvement * MVERSIONS-5 - update-child-modules goal
