This plugin will check if any SNAPSHOT dependencies (or optionally plugins SNAPSHOT) have been updated during your project's dependencies resolution and trigger a build. You have to configure a cron expression.

This plugin use maven 3 apis to update dependencies.

Trigger configuration

The build cause will display which SNAPSHOTS has been downloaded:

History

Version 1.5 : 24 April 2015.

• Remove dependencies and imports from older maven plugin that used *.aether.* packages. (issue #23502)

Version 1.4 : 30 Dec 2011.

• Upgrade maven versions.
• fix use of maven default global settings.
• various fixes on reading reactors projects.

Version 1.3 : 13 Aug 2011.

• Update for Jenkins

Version 1.2 : 6 Oct 2010.

• Build is triggered whene maven-metadata-${repoId}.xml is downloaded (JENKINS-7688)

Version 1.1 : 5 Oct 2010.

• Fix execution on remote nodes (plugin version 1.0 works only for jobs on master) (JENKINS-7650)
• Maven Dependency Update trigger doesn't use defined settings xml or properties (JENKINS-7660)

Version 1.0 : 2 Oct 2010.

• First release