From 06915980cf1d84640ebc45878b22d804927223c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikhil Sidhaye <sidhaye.nikhil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 21:16:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Version Update Configuration Rules.

---
 maven-version-rules.xml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 pom.xml                 | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 maven-version-rules.xml

diff --git a/maven-version-rules.xml b/maven-version-rules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d126d2789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-version-rules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?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).*EA(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>	
+		<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*SNAPSHOT(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>	
+		<!-- Sometimes Milestone releases are fair enough for testing libs like JUnit-->
+		<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*M(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
+	</ignoreVersions>
+	
+	<rules>
+	<!-- One can add different rules in order to exclude specific version from automatic updates.  -->
+	<!-- Testing... Update groupId, artifact id and appropriate version in order to exclude from versioning plugin 
+    		<rule groupId="com.microsoft.azure" artifactId="adal4j">
+      		<ignoreVersions>
+        		<ignoreVersion>1.3.0</ignoreVersion>
+      		</ignoreVersions>
+    		</rule>
+	-->		
+	</rules>
+  
+</ruleset>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a8ccbaddaf..a1c6195900 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -336,6 +336,16 @@
 					</dependency>
 				</dependencies>
 			</plugin>
+
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+				<artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<inherited>true</inherited> <!-- try with false -->
+				<configuration>
+					<outputFile>outdated-dependencies.txt</outputFile>
+					<rulesUri>file:///${session.executionRootDirectory}/maven-version-rules.xml</rulesUri>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>				
 	  
 		</plugins>
 	</build>

From 74e12a9d8bfa9b51668e39702af833d65c61d8db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikhil Sidhaye <sidhaye.nikhil@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 22:08:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Added `outdated-dependencies.txt` in .gitignore

---
 .gitignore | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index acb9b8d91c..32c0d60718 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ local.properties
 .settings/
 .gradle/
 .loadpath
+outdated-dependencies.txt
 
 # External tool builders
 .externalToolBuilders/

From e79f964548d10f42d0ad41f3c52c2557a910dd81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikhil Sidhaye <sidhaye.nikhil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:52:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Updated as per review comments

---
 .gitignore | 1 +
 pom.xml    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 32c0d60718..b8095970d9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ local.properties
 .gradle/
 .loadpath
 outdated-dependencies.txt
+pom.xml.versionBackup
 
 # External tool builders
 .externalToolBuilders/
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 402b7f740f..cebe7dca64 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 				<artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-				<inherited>true</inherited> <!-- try with false -->
+				<inherited>true</inherited>
 				<configuration>
 					<outputFile>outdated-dependencies.txt</outputFile>
 					<rulesUri>file:///${session.executionRootDirectory}/maven-version-rules.xml</rulesUri>