The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Common Artifact Filters, version 1.3 This shared library provides a set of implementations for the org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.filter.ArtifactFilter interface, found in maven-artifact. Most notable are the implementations allowing the use of wildcard patterns for including and excluding artifacts. To use this library, specify the following dependency in your pom.xml: org.apache.maven.shared maven-common-artifact-filters 1.3 Release Notes - Maven Common Artifact Filters - Version 1.3 ** Bug * [MSHARED-162] - actTransitively wildcard patterns can fail on pattern-based filters Enjoy, -The Maven team -- John Casey Developer, PMC Member - Apache Maven ( Blog: