manueljordan opened a new issue, #13356:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/13356
### New feature, improvement proposal
Hello Maven Team
Pls consider the following scenario:
Exists many projects with the same dependency such as JUnit. These projects
are **not** related among them and as reminder they are of the two following
types:
**Standalone projects**
Such as _project-a_, _project-b_, ..., _project-n_ where is used:
* `<packaging>jar</packaging>`
**Parent/module projects**
Such as _parent-project-001_, _parent-project-002_, ...,
_parent-project-00n_ where is used:
* `<packaging>pom</packaging>` + `<packaging>jar</packaging>`
Because they are not related among them and if exists a new version of JUnit
is mandatory open each project and upgrade the version at the `pom.xml` file.
It such as:
```xml
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<jdk.version>25</jdk.version>
...
<junit.version>6.1.3</junit.version>
</properties>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
```
As you can imagine it can be "complicated"
**Suggestion**
Can be possible do it globally? It to be declared for example at the
`/home/<username>/apache/maven/<version>/conf/settings.xml` file or something
special such as the
`/home/<username>/apache/maven/<version>/properties/properties.xml` file which
would contain:.
```xml
<global-properties>
<junit.version>6.1.3</junit.version>
</global-properties>
```
It to be applied as:
```xml
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<jdk.version>25</jdk.version>
...
<junit.version>${global.property.junit.version}</junit.version>
</properties>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
```
I hope you see my point
Of course if is **not** need it the use of the global approach then is used
the classic way as the 1rst sample code shown (practically it becomes now a
kind of override of the global approach)
Thanks for your understanding
**Just in case**: pls, consider to create the _discussions_ section as
[Apache Netbeans](https://github.com/apache/netbeans/discussions) has
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