Why does Bower install update my jQuery version to 2.1.1?

Question

Running Bower install updates my jquery version to 2.11.

I currently have:

 "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "= 1.11.0",
    "jquery-migrate": ">= 1.2.1",
    "jquery-ui": "= 1.10.4",
    "bootstrap": "= 3.1.1",
    "html5shiv": "=3.7.0",
    "respond": "=1.4.2",
    "angular": "1.2.16",
    "angular-route": "1.2.16",
    "angular-ui-router": "0.2.10",
    "requirejs": "2.1.14",
    "angular-mocks": "1.2.16",
    "ngprogress": "1.0.4"
  }

This is my log:

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Update available: 1.3.5 (current: 1.2.8)
Run npm update -g bower to update
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bower jquery#>=1.6              cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.1
bower jquery#>=1.6            validate 2.1.1 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#>=1.6
bower jquery#>= 1.9.0           cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.1
bower jquery#>= 1.9.0         validate 2.1.1 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#>= 1.9.0
bower jquery#>=1.6             install jquery#2.1.1

Answer 1

If you want jquery only 1.x branch you should have "jquery": "1.x",