Hello, The current implementation for the versioning of poms is
<major>.<minor>.<revision>([-<qualifier>]|[-<build>]) At least, that's what I found in the resources belong: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Versioning http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Extending+Maven+2.0+Dependencies Unfortunately, 3 digits isn't enough for our case. What are the pitfalls using a 4 number scheme? So far, I've seen any problems deploying or releasing components with the maven plugins. Would you recommend to use a more complicated qualifier instead? My proposition would be a version like: 1.2.3-beta-4.5 beta-4.5 is 5. build of the 4. beta iteration. Thanks for your comments and sharing your experiences. Kuno
