JarCastingupdates-maven-plugin
Report of which dependencies of a project have updates. This plugin provides a similar report to the versions updates-report. This plugin provides simpler configuration to eliminate non-production updates in the report. This plugin will only produce an xml report of updates for the declared dependencies in a project.
Goals
There is a single goal. report generates an xml report of the updates available for each dependency.
Mojo details at plugin info
Parameters
| Parameter | Property | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| localRepository | localRepository | The local repositories to check for updates | |
| outputDirectory | project.reporting.outputDirectory | site | The directory for the report |
| outputEncoding | outputEncoding | UTF-8 | The encoding for the report |
| qualifierRegex | updates.qualifier | (?i:Release|GA|Final) | The regular expression to accept qualifiers |
| remoteArtifactRepositories | project.remoteArtifactRepositories | The remote repositories to check for updates | |
| reportName | updates.report | dependency-updates-report.xml | The report name |
| retrievalThreadCount | updates.threads | 8 | Number of threads to retrieve dependency updates |
| skip | updates.skip | false | Skip executing the plugin |
Ignoring Non-production updates
You probably don't want to be informed of alpha, beta, snapshot, release candidates or other non-production ready versions. The qualifierRegex parameter allows you to specify which version qualifiers will be reported as updates. The default qualifierRegex specifies a case-insensitive match of Release, GA, or Final.
Requirements
- Maven 3.5 or later
- Java 1.8 or later
Typical Use
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.honton.chas</groupId>
<artifactId>updates-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>