Re: Will a version range for a parent pom reference work?

Whether it works or not, you really, really don't want to do this.
It's a source of really hard to diagnose security bugs.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 6:37=E2=80=AFPM KARR, DAVID via users
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> We are wondering whether we can use a version range for the "parent"->"ve=
rsion" property in our pom.xml. The docs don't explicitly say so, but compa=
ring the info for the "version" property in "parent" vs. "dependency", we s=
ee that only in "dependency" does it mention the possibility of using the r=
ange syntax.  In our tests, it didn't reject the range syntax in the parent=
, but we'd have to set up a more complex test to verify whether it's actual=
ly respecting it.  We're currently on version 3.9.8.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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