I really dislike how #Maven outputs text during a build. Gonna be extremely difficult to automate my next task because Maven's output is definitely not even meant for human eyes, let alone machine.

@lattera You can generate a XML report if you need to process the result in an automated fashion if you use dependency-updates-report instead:

mvn -DdependencyUpdatesReportFormats=xml versions:dependency-updates-report

That will create target/dependency-updates-report.xml

For more details see: https://www.mojohaus.org/versions/versions-maven-plugin/dependency-updates-report-mojo.html

versions:dependency-updates-report – Versions Maven Plugin

@truls46 That's a great reference! Thank you! :-)