Maven artifact version for patches

Question

I\'m currently working on Maven tools for Project Dash. One of the open issues is how to handle mistakes.

Maven central says: Nothing published ever changes. This is bec

Answer 1

Maven project versions are specified like this.

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As you do not want to change the version number you are looking for a qualifier. I do not know if there is a general recommendation for the name of the qualifier. The Spring people e.g. did something like this

2.5.6.SEC01
2.5.6.SR02
3.0.0.M3

They didn't use the hyphen/dash notation to seperate the qualifier.

What ever you do, you have to be careful regarding the ordering of versions! Have a look at the first link I added.

Update: Also have a look at @krzyk comment for recent changes/additions.