How can I fetch a “particular minor version” of an artifact in Maven

Question

Is there a way to specify minor version along with the major one? For example for spring release "4.0.0", there are two minor versions

spring-aop-4.0.0.BUILD-20130814.154539-196.jar
spring-aop-4.0.0.BUILD-20130823.020236-203

Can I specify a specific minor version along with the dependency?

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    <version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

These are what Maven would consider SNAPSHOT builds, which usually are intermediate versions in between proper releases. If you specify your version as 4.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT Maven retrieves the most recent one.

Note that in general these should be consider development versions, not necessarily fit for general use.