rules.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ruleset xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" comparisonMethod="maven" xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">
  <ignoreVersions>
    <!-- Ignore Alpha's, Beta's, release candidates and milestones -->
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*Alpha(?:-?\d+)?.*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*Beta(?:-?\d+)?.*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*-B(?:-?\d+)?.*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*RC(?:-?\d+)?.*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*CR(?:-?\d+)?.*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*M(?:-?\d+)?.*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[-_\.](alpha|Alpha|ALPHA|SONATYPE|EDR|EDR1|EDR2|PFD|PFD1|PFD2|TYCHO|SP|android|b|beta|jboss|jbossorg|Beta|BETA|rc|RC|M|EA)[-_\.]?[0-9]*</ignoreVersion>
  </ignoreVersions>
  <rules>
    <!-- Obvious mismatches -->
    <rule groupId="commons-collections" artifactId="commons-collections">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">^200.*$</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion>99.0-does-not-exist</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="org.hamcrest">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion>1.4-atlassian-1</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <!-- Version 5 of hibernate requires javax.validation 1.1.0. This is a new api and a lot of effort to upgrade -->
    <rule groupId="org.hibernate" artifactId="hibernate-validator" comparisonMethod="maven">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">^5.*$</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="javax.validation" artifactId="validation-api">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">1.1.0.Final</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="javax.annotation" artifactId="jsr250-api">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">1.0-20050927.133100</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="com.google.guava" artifactId="guava">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*jre.*</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="com.thoughtworks.xstream" artifactId="xstream">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*java.*</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="org.python" artifactId="jython">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*b.*</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
    <rule groupId="logkit" artifactId="logkit">
      <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">20020529</ignoreVersion>
      </ignoreVersions>
    </rule>
  </rules>
</ruleset>