Show Updates Maven Plugin

Show the latest update version of maven dependencies.

License	MIT License
Categories	Maven Build Tools
GroupId	com.github.ccguyka
ArtifactId	show-updates-maven-plugin
Last Version	1.8.0
Release Date	Dec 20, 2020
Type	maven-plugin
Description	Show Updates Maven Plugin Show the latest update version of maven dependencies.
Project URL	http://github.com/ccguyka/show-updates-maven-plugin
Source Code Management	https://github.com/ccguyka/show-updates-maven-plugin

Download show-updates-maven-plugin

Filename	Size
show-updates-maven-plugin-1.8.0.pom
show-updates-maven-plugin-1.8.0.jar	55 KB
show-updates-maven-plugin-1.8.0-sources.jar	26 KB
show-updates-maven-plugin-1.8.0-javadoc.jar	193 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.ccguyka</groupId>
    <artifactId>show-updates-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.0</version>
</plugin>

Dependencies

compile (6)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.jetbrains.kotlin : kotlin-stdlib	jar	1.4.21
org.apache.maven : maven-core	jar	3.6.3
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools : maven-plugin-annotations	jar	3.6.0
com.fasterxml.jackson.core : jackson-databind	jar	2.12.0
com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat : jackson-dataformat-xml	jar	2.12.0
com.slack.api : slack-api-client	jar	1.4.1

test (9)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
junit : junit	jar	4.13.1
org.apache.maven.plugin-testing : maven-plugin-testing-harness	jar	3.3.0
org.apache.maven : maven-compat	jar	3.6.3
org.mockito : mockito-core	jar	3.6.28
org.assertj : assertj-core	jar	3.18.1
org.assertj : assertj-guava	jar	3.4.0
com.github.tomakehurst : wiremock-jre8	jar	2.27.2
org.slf4j : slf4j-api	jar	1.7.30
org.slf4j : slf4j-simple	jar	1.7.30

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

Show Maven Updates Plugin

Show the latest update version of maven dependencies.

Goals

Updates

The updates goal prints all dependencies to console and creates a maven-updates.json file for all maven modules.

mvn com.github.ccguyka:show-updates-maven-plugin:updates

Properties

name	default	description
excludes	alpha,beta,SNAPSHOT	Dependency key words to be excluded from result as comma separated list
versions	latest	Show either latest (patch, minor and major versions), major, minor or patch version updates.

Example

This is how the output will look like. In this case the guava-testlib module of guava v27.0

[INFO] -------------------< com.google.guava:guava-testlib >-------------------
[INFO] Building Guava Testing Library 27.0-jre
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- show-updates-maven-plugin:updates (default-cli) @ guava-testlib ---
[INFO] Available parent updates:
[INFO]   com.google.guava:guava-parent ... 27.0-jre -> 27.0.1-jre, 27.1-jre, 29.0-jre
[INFO] Available dependency updates:
[INFO]   org.checkerframework:checker-qual ... 2.5.2 -> 2.5.8, 2.11.1, 3.3.0
[INFO]   com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations ... 2.2.0 -> 2.3.4
[INFO]   com.google.truth:truth ... 0.42 -> 0.46, 1.0.1
[INFO]   com.google.j2objc:j2objc-annotations ... 1.1 -> 1.3
[INFO]   junit:junit ... 4.12 -> 4.13
[INFO] Available plugin updates:
[INFO]   org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin ... 1.17 -> 1.18

Aggregate

The aggregate goal uses the created maven-updates.json of the updates goal and combines them into one aggregated-maven-updates.json within the root module.

mvn com.github.ccguyka:show-updates-maven-plugin:aggregate

Send report to slack

The send-slack-message goal will send the report to given slack webhook.

mvn com.github.ccguyka:show-updates-maven-plugin:send-slack-message -Dtoken=<slack-webhook>

Developer notes

Build

How to build and test the project.

mvn test

Release deployment to central repository

Based on official documentation

mvn release:clean release:prepare release:perform -Prelease

Versions

Version
1.8.0 Dec 20, 2020
1.7.0 Dec 20, 2020
1.6.0 Jun 12, 2020
1.5.2 May 11, 2020
1.5.1 Apr 20, 2020
1.5.0 Apr 19, 2020
1.4.1 Nov 22, 2019
1.4.0 Nov 19, 2019
1.3.0 Sep 1, 2019
1.2.0 Jul 9, 2019
1.1.0 Apr 22, 2019
1.0.0 Apr 22, 2019