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Benedikt Waldvogel edited comment on IO-881 at 11/12/25 7:31 PM:
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The issue seems to be fixed now! 🎉
Big thanks to whoever fixed the latest version data in
[https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/maven-metadata.xml] 🙏
Was it even an automated process?
FTR:
The previous version of maven-metadata.xml ({{{}lastUpdated=20251107184946){}}}
defined latest version to be {{20030203.000550}} ❌
Now, the current version of maven-metadata.xml
({{{}lastUpdated=20251112172346){}}} correctly defines the latest version to be
{{2.21.0}} ✅
BTW: Even search.maven.org showed the wrong version:
!image-2025-11-12-20-16-36-498.png|width=244,height=166!
[~ggregory], [~b.eckenfels]: We probably talked past each other. This issue
wasn’t about a two decades old version that shouldn’t be in Maven Central. This
issue was about a very recent change (November 7th) that affected many but of
course not all tools. Since even search.maven.org was affected, the impact was
rather big IMO.
{quote}Publishing a new version will do nothing to change software the sorts
based on version number instead of date. Sometimes sorting on the date is what
you want, sometimes not […]
[~ggregory]
{quote}
My suggestion was fixing the latest version metadata in
[https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/maven-metadata.xml].
Software that picks the latest version based on sorting is wrong since two
decades, sure. But this was about a new issue that (even) affected tools that
_don’t_ pick the version by sorting.
{quote}And as already mentioned this is not a new thing, that version is broken
since a very Long time […]
[~b.eckenfels]
{quote}
Actually this issue is/was about a new thing ;)
was (Author: bwaldvogel):
The issue seems to be fixed now! 🎉
Big thanks to however fixed the latest version data in
[https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/maven-metadata.xml] 🙏
Was it even an automated process?
FTR:
The previous version of maven-metadata.xml ({{{}lastUpdated=20251107184946){}}}
defined latest version to be {{{}20030203.000550{}}} ❌
Now, the current version of maven-metadata.xml
({{{}lastUpdated=20251112172346){}}} correctly defines the latest version to be
{{{}2.21.0{}}} ✅
BTW: Even search.maven.org showed the wrong version:
!image-2025-11-12-20-16-36-498.png|width=244,height=166!
[~ggregory], [~b.eckenfels]: We probably talked past each other. This issue
wasn’t about a two decades old version that shouldn’t be in Maven Central. This
issue was about a very recent change (November 7th) that affected many but of
course not all tools. Since even search.maven.org was affected, the impact was
rather big IMO.
{quote}Publishing a new version will do nothing to change software the sorts
based on version number instead of date. Sometimes sorting on the date is what
you want, sometimes not […]
[~ggregory]
{quote}
My suggestion was fixing the latest version metadata in
[https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/maven-metadata.xml].
Software that picks the latest version based on sorting is wrong since two
decades, sure. But this was about a new issue that (even) affected tools that
_don’t_ pick the version by sorting.
{quote}And as already mentioned this is not a new thing, that version is broken
since a very Long time […]
[~b.eckenfels]
{quote}
Actually this issue is/was about a new thing ;)
> 20030203.000550 is now latest version in Maven
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> Attachments: image-2025-11-12-16-31-57-683.png,
> image-2025-11-12-20-16-36-498.png
>
>
> 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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