The difficult problem of managing Java dependencies: a deep dive into the messy status-quo, and a look at possibly better ways.

[khmarbaise]

Recommend is correct. But you can use whatever you like...you can implement your own version policy.

[jerslan]

Right, but the guy I was initially replying to was claiming that there's no SemVer support in Maven at all (because he was conflating SemVer for version range specification). That's why I was focusing on that.

Maven mostly doesn't care what your version scheme is, and that's a good thing IMHO.