updates-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>