rules.xml

<ruleset comparisonMethod="maven"
  xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">
  <ignoreVersions>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-beta.</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*_ALPHA</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-alpha12</ignoreVersion>
	<ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[-_\.](alpha|Alpha|ALPHA|b|beta|Beta|BETA|preview|rc|RC|M|EA)[-_\.]?[0-9]*</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*Alpha(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*a(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*Beta(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*-B(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*RC(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*CR(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*M(?:-?\d+)?</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">4.0.0-M3</ignoreVersion>
    <ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*(-alpha|.alpha|beta|-ea|-m1|-m2|-m3|-m4|cr|rc).*</ignoreVersion>

  </ignoreVersions>

</ruleset>