How to get version of Maven in a Maven property?

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Is it possible to get the version of Maven as a property?

For example, in this guide I have to choose a version of maven-core library according to the version of Maven I have installed, but it doesn't say if I should just type whatever version I have installed, or to get it programmatically. I suppose the latter, but can't find a way to do so.

@Suseika The reason is provided in the link, but it would be better IMHO to describe in your question as well. — Puce, Jul 22 '15 at 07:42
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to dynamically specify dependency versions... — Puce, Jul 22 '15 at 07:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '15 at 09:53

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There already is such a property: maven.version

The Maven Archiver will even write the value of this property to /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF by default:

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Created-By: Apache Maven 3.2.5
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See the documentation for details.

answered Jul 22 '15 at 09:53

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