diff --git a/all/pom.xml b/all/pom.xml
index 95d93fb4a5d7..1d5dbd0b876a 100644
--- a/all/pom.xml
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diff --git a/buffer/pom.xml b/buffer/pom.xml
index 3df174e00241..41ffec92cf12 100644
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diff --git a/codec-dns/pom.xml b/codec-dns/pom.xml
index 7e0d3449c666..d0986fc01729 100644
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diff --git a/codec-haproxy/pom.xml b/codec-haproxy/pom.xml
index eec40a7d8a68..8e4a0d6026f7 100644
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diff --git a/codec-memcache/pom.xml b/codec-memcache/pom.xml
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diff --git a/codec-mqtt/pom.xml b/codec-mqtt/pom.xml
index 0c0b8f4fd28e..91b660fa3f59 100644
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diff --git a/codec-socks/pom.xml b/codec-socks/pom.xml
index 4a74adc2eb65..3c8a99978c90 100644
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diff --git a/codec-stomp/pom.xml b/codec-stomp/pom.xml
index 3861a199ff2b..f8fca6a721de 100644
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index ce00c8f11a07..924f78b3c992 100644
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diff --git a/common/pom.xml b/common/pom.xml
index 7de65cb824fa..0e1e2eab2f0b 100644
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diff --git a/example/pom.xml b/example/pom.xml
index d7aa9a4c98df..be9232e7d42d 100644
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diff --git a/handler-proxy/pom.xml b/handler-proxy/pom.xml
index 2786899400c9..18560cb66ffd 100644
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index 79bf28992540..22866c7bd744 100644
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diff --git a/microbench/pom.xml b/microbench/pom.xml
index d60276c9313f..a049690734d1 100644
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index de9bdc032129..199b077dd35c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
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index 7c308179f1b7..b787ed6364dd 100644
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index ab129f537d7e..0c5b9cd2512d 100644
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diff --git a/tarball/pom.xml b/tarball/pom.xml
index 02bc0206b394..ffde2a71b51a 100644
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diff --git a/testsuite-osgi/pom.xml b/testsuite-osgi/pom.xml
index 71bb72195d5b..eeb47a6e82b8 100644
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diff --git a/transport-native-epoll/pom.xml b/transport-native-epoll/pom.xml
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