I believe the versions-maven-plugin is the closest what you need,
but it will not "increment the hotfix part of the version by one"
correctly if you are working on a release branch (for example 1.2.x) and
a higher release has been made (for example 1.3.0).
More info here:
https://jira.codeha
You can use this plugin for a wide range of version changes:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/
For automatic incrementing, you might look at the release plugin:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/
If neither of those do what you want, then it would probably be easi
