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What does SP in '2.11.0.SP5' mean?

I have a need to use a version of xerces that that does not use xml-apis; there is some legacy code that does not play well with it.

I found the following which looks like it will do the trick.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/xerces/xercesImpl -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>xerces</groupId>
    <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
    <version>2.11.0.SP5</version>
</dependency>

But I am not sure what the 'SP5' means. More specifically, I do not know if this can be trusted for a production system.

Solution

  • This is indeed a fork with fixes from JBoss community.