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Beta and alpha release suggested as upgrades should be ignored (although there are sometimes other releases between current and the beta which may warrant an upgrade). One way of cutting down this clutter is to constrain the updates the versionsplugin will show you. For example, to show only patch updates (assuming semantic versioning) you can say:
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mvn versions:display-dependency-updates -DallowAnyUpdates=false -DallowMajorUpdates=false -DallowMinorUpdates=false |
Note that these options are hierarchical: allowAnyUpdates must be disabled before allowMajorUpdates has any effect, and so forth.
Test scopes can usually be upgraded easily, equally minor revisions.
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