maven-version-rules.xml

<ruleset comparisonMethod="maven"
         xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">
    <ignoreVersions>
        <!-- Exclude milestones, release candidates, alphas, and betas-->
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[\.-](?i)([M|alpha|beta|rc]).*</ignoreVersion>
        <!-- Exclude milestones, release candidates, alphas, and betas, and Java7 qualifiers -->
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*\.jre[6-7]</ignoreVersion>
    </ignoreVersions>
    <rules>
        <!-- Pin logback version to v1.3.x (v1.4.0+ requires Java11) -->
        <rule groupId="ch.qos.logback" comparisonMethod="maven">
            <ignoreVersions>
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">1\.[4-9]\..*</ignoreVersion>
            </ignoreVersions>
        </rule>
        <!-- Pin checkstyle version to pre-v10 (v10 is requires Java11) -->
        <rule groupId="com.puppycrawl.tools" artifactId="checkstyle" comparisonMethod="maven">
            <ignoreVersions>
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">10\..*</ignoreVersion>
            </ignoreVersions>
        </rule>
        <!-- Pin testng version to 7.5.x (v7.6+ requires Java11) -->
        <rule groupId="org.testng" artifactId="testng" comparisonMethod="maven">
            <ignoreVersions>
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">7\.[6-9].*</ignoreVersion>
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">7\.10\..*</ignoreVersion>
            </ignoreVersions>
        </rule>
        <!-- Pin git-commit-id-plugin version to final 4.x release version (v5+ requires Java11 -->
        <rule groupId="pl.project13.maven" artifactId="git-commit-id-plugin">
            <ignoreVersions>
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">4\.9\.9</ignoreVersion>
            </ignoreVersions>
        </rule>
    </rules>
</ruleset>