title: Managing Spring Boot parent POM version in multiple projects
body: <p>I've created a few Spring Boot projects, each one's POM including a <strong><a href="http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-parent" rel="nofollow">spring-boot-starter-parent</a></strong> as a parent. Whenever a new version comes out, I currently need to manually update it in every POM.</p>
  
  <p>Adding a POM dependency which already has the <strong>spring-boot-starter-parent</strong> does not help, and the <a href="http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/using-boot-build-systems.html#using-boot-maven-without-a-parent" rel="nofollow">Spring Boot documentation</a> states that using an 'import' scope will only work for dependencies, and not the Spring Boot version itself.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to define a "super-pom" which all my projects can inherit from, where I can set the Spring Boot version once, and not go through each project?</p>