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The original discussion also touched on the following, which are related but separate issues:

• locking down versions at release time where they were not specified (a more general problem, as it includes not only RELEASE/LATEST, but ranges too).
• separation of "declaration" from "instantiation" for a POM.

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It would be beneficial to write a plugin that can look at the current versions in a project, and suggest possible updates available in the repository (and apply them in an interactive fashion). This may suit the maven-pom-plugin.

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