config/version-number-rules.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ruleset xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    comparisonMethod="maven" xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 https://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">

    <ignoreVersions>
        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[-_\.](alpha|Alpha|ALPHA|beta|Beta|BETA|rc|RC|M|EA)[-_\.]?[0-9]?.*</ignoreVersion>
    </ignoreVersions>
    <rules>
        <rule groupId="com.google.guava" artifactId="guava">
            <ignoreVersions>
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-android</ignoreVersion>
            </ignoreVersions>
        </rule>
        <rule groupId="antlr" artifactId="antlr">
            <ignoreVersions>
                <!-- this is really old version before versioning become semantic -->
                <ignoreVersion type="regex">20030911</ignoreVersion>
            </ignoreVersions>
        </rule>
    </rules>
</ruleset>