How to check the lastest dependency on Maven

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Is there any method to check whether a dependency is latest or not? I am wonder any web site can provide such functionality.

What do you mean by the latest? Do you mean if the dependency version is newest ? Such thing ? — khmarbaise, Apr 28 '12 at 10:23
SO as an excellent thread on this subject : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30571/how-do-i-tell-maven-to-use-the-latest-version-of-a-dependency — , Apr 28 '12 at 10:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '12 at 06:09

You can find out the latest version of any maven dependency deployed on Maven Central through search.maven.org

If you are finding any dynamic ways of doing it, I do not know of any except for using aether library provided by Sonatype which can allow you to find out the latest version of a particular library deployed in any repository.

Maven does allow specifying version ranges in the dependency but it goes against philosophy of reproducible builds. I have read on the Maven users list that people discourage this practice.

Tristan · Answer 2 · 2012-05-01T19:05:59.800

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If you're trying to find updates to dependencies you've declared in your pom, the maven versions plugin works pretty well:

mvn versions:display-dependency-updates
mvn versions:display-plugin-updates

edited May 01 '12 at 19:05

answered May 01 '12 at 18:39

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