Maven “versions” plugin - how to exclude alpha/beta versions from response?

Question

I have an issue concerning the plugin versions.

When it generates a report with the goal:

mvn versions:display-dependency-updates

I

Answer 1

You can configure the versions plugin like this:

    org.codehaus.mojo
    versions-maven-plugin
    2.1
    
        someUrl
    

someUrl can also be a file URL. The syntax of the rules file is given in http://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/version-rules.html, it may contain something like this:

  
    .*-beta.
    .*_ALPHA