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Gary D. Gregory edited comment on IO-881 at 11/11/25 3:51 PM:
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Hello [~veita]
That's just the way the Maven repository works. It sorts versions by number in
lexicographical order to give you the latest, and "20030203." is greater that
"0.", "1." and so on.
Not specifying a version number in a dependency seems like a bad practice to
me. See also
https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
was (Author: garydgregory):
Hello [~veita]
That's just the way the Maven repository works. It sorts versions by number in
lexicographical order to give you the latest, and "20030203." is greater that
"0.", "1." and so on.
> 20030203.000550 is now latest version in Maven
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> Key: IO-881
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-881
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: 2.21.0
> Reporter: Alexander Veit
> Priority: Minor
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> With 2.21.0 the latest version in Maven has changed to
> `{color:#000000}20030203.000550{color}` which is wrong.
>
> See https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/maven-metadata.xml
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