diff --git a/application/pom.xml b/application/pom.xml
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--- a/application/pom.xml
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diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index f3dab45b..fce3c24e 100644
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diff --git a/data/pom.xml b/data/pom.xml
index 31deb381..b099dbe6 100644
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diff --git a/data/solrcore-crawl-systel/pom.xml b/data/solrcore-crawl-systel/pom.xml
index 94253876..4dfa0023 100644
--- a/data/solrcore-crawl-systel/pom.xml
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diff --git a/data/solrcore-wikipedia-de/pom.xml b/data/solrcore-wikipedia-de/pom.xml
index b214e62a..18f3fc41 100644
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diff --git a/db-migrator/pom.xml b/db-migrator/pom.xml
index c5360e59..bddfb08a 100644
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index c81c5503..63ffcca6 100644
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diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
index 4203ef08..cf9f3955 100644
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diff --git a/frontend/pom.xml b/frontend/pom.xml
index 3a0588e2..bb741f4f 100644
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diff --git a/integration/rocket-chat/pom.xml b/integration/rocket-chat/pom.xml
index 6c38f246..33308e06 100644
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diff --git a/integration/solr-docker/pom.xml b/integration/solr-docker/pom.xml
index 7fc3c6ed..024d86a4 100644
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diff --git a/lib/chatpal-index/pom.xml b/lib/chatpal-index/pom.xml
index 560a7004..f27a67ef 100644
--- a/lib/chatpal-index/pom.xml
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diff --git a/lib/hasso-vocabulary-extractors/pom.xml b/lib/hasso-vocabulary-extractors/pom.xml
index 80da5ec1..5ac4bbf7 100644
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diff --git a/lib/keyword-interestingterms/pom.xml b/lib/keyword-interestingterms/pom.xml
index b3b75bba..946761b4 100644
--- a/lib/keyword-interestingterms/pom.xml
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diff --git a/lib/keyword-solr-mlt/pom.xml b/lib/keyword-solr-mlt/pom.xml
index 1b652e4a..47f4e396 100644
--- a/lib/keyword-solr-mlt/pom.xml
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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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diff --git a/lib/ner/pom.xml b/lib/ner/pom.xml
index 77716388..72504cdb 100644
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diff --git a/lib/pom.xml b/lib/pom.xml
index 6a965a70..4d5625d5 100644
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     <artifactId>lib</artifactId>
diff --git a/lib/pos/pom.xml b/lib/pos/pom.xml
index 6bf5f05d..485b33b8 100644
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diff --git a/lib/query-conversation/pom.xml b/lib/query-conversation/pom.xml
index 95c11dfe..54b3ad2f 100644
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diff --git a/lib/query-solr/pom.xml b/lib/query-solr/pom.xml
index 1160ebaa..9e859811 100644
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diff --git a/lib/token-processor/pom.xml b/lib/token-processor/pom.xml
index f300bec3..81fd16ab 100644
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c16d16d2..6f7c8de8 100644
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