Does the maven-dependency-plugin use some other kind of artifact resolution than the rest of maven?

Question

If I use the maven-dependency-plugin plugin, than I can\'t use a version range. Also it seems the version of a there defined artifact doesn\'t get updated though a newer ver

Answer 1

As of version 3.0.0 the maven-dependency-plugin now supports this out of the box. Credits and thanks to Brian_Fox