maven-version-rules.xml
<ruleset comparisonMethod="maven"
xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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>
<ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[-_\.](alpha|Alpha|ALPHA|b|beta|Beta|BETA|rc|RC|M|EA)[-_\.]?[0-9]*.*
</ignoreVersion>
<ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-b\d*\.\d*</ignoreVersion>
</ignoreVersions>
<rules>
<rule groupId="commons-io" artifactId="commons-io" comparisonMethod="maven">
<ignoreVersions>
<ignoreVersion type="exact">20030203.000550</ignoreVersion>
</ignoreVersions>
</rule>
</rules>
</ruleset>