IntelliJ running wrong version of SpringBoot - mvn and java jar work correctly

Question

I am running version 2018.1.2 of IntelliJ. Whenever I run or debug my application from within IntelliJ, Springboot is running version 2.0.0.RELEASE (and erroring out). The pom.xml has the following set:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

When I run mvn clean package, I can see that it is running version 2.0.1.RELEASE and everything works as expected. I have also tried running java -jar app.jar and it is showing 2.0.1.RELEASE.

I have looked all over IntelliJ to see if there are any additional settings or places to override the version and I have found nothing. Does anyone know how to ensure the version of Springboot within IntelliJ?

Any of the answers here should probably fix it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9980869/force-intellij-idea-to-reread-all-maven-dependencies — Dhruv Murarka, May 01 '18 at 16:14
I had tried reimporting before. I just went through each of those answers and tried all of them again with no luck :/ — DuckyDisciple, May 01 '18 at 17:08
Have you deleted .idea folder and .iml file before reimporting? — y.bedrov, May 02 '18 at 08:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '18 at 17:06

I'm not sure what the actual fix is, but I can provide the steps that resolved the issue:

Backed up and deleted .idea folder and .iml file from project
Reimported, build (errored immediately)
Restored .idea folder, but deleted contents of library folder
Reimported, mvn clean package, build (failed immediately)
Restored library items
Build (failed immediately)
Mvn clean package, reimport, build (success)

None of the files or steps really changed, but this process somehow fixed things.

IntelliJ running wrong version of SpringBoot - mvn and java jar work correctly

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