Latest dependency versions of various Apache libraries from maven suddenly use a very old version

问题

So I've been using various Apache commons libraries for a while and all was fine until suddenly when using the mvn versions:use-latest-versions command or the LATEST version tag uses/places a very old version of various Apache libraries into the <version> tag:

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-net</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
    <version>20030805.205232</version> <!-- Note: 2003! -->
</dependency>

If we take a look at the maven repository of commons-net, we can tell that this is one of the first releases of the library. Why am I not getting the latest version as requested anymore? What happened? This is annoying because my code of course fails to compile with such an old version and I have to manually go through my dependencies and update the versions for each malbehaving Apache library. Strangely enough, it does not affect libraries by other vendors.

>mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.6.2 (40f52333136460af0dc0d7232c0dc0bcf0d9e117; 2019-08-27T17:06:16+02:00)
Maven home: C:\maven\bin\..
Java version: 1.8.0_271, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_271\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65188179/latest-dependency-versions-of-various-apache-libraries-from-maven-suddenly-use-a