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Jar files within a war archive have old changed date

After upgrading the version of dependencies inside the pom.xml file, the version of the jar files inside the lib folder is getting upgraded, but the changed date of these files is somewhat old. In contrast, the war file was generated just moments before. Any idea why this is happening? This is happening while the war file is generated on a date way ahead of this one.

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Solution

  • Case 1: Lib A depend on foo-3.2.5.jar . Your war depend on Lib A.

    Case 2: Your other project B what created on Jan 1st 2022, depend on foo-3.2.5.jar

    Your WAR depend on foo-3.2.4.jar , then you upgrade to foo-3.2.5.jar (it was exist)

    If you want see something brand new, delete all in .m2 directory. Clear maven cache https://www.baeldung.com/maven-clear-cache