How do I tell Maven to use the latest version of a dependency?

Question

In Maven, dependencies are usually set up like this:

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Answer 1

By the time this question was posed there were some kinks with version ranges in maven, but these have been resolved in newer versions of maven. This article captures very well how version ranges work and best practices to better understand how maven understands versions: https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/core/MAVEN/maven_version.htm#MAVEN8855