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diff --git a/examples/storm-elasticsearch-examples/pom.xml b/examples/storm-elasticsearch-examples/pom.xml
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diff --git a/examples/storm-hive-examples/pom.xml b/examples/storm-hive-examples/pom.xml
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diff --git a/examples/storm-jdbc-examples/pom.xml b/examples/storm-jdbc-examples/pom.xml
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diff --git a/examples/storm-loadgen/pom.xml b/examples/storm-loadgen/pom.xml
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diff --git a/examples/storm-starter/pom.xml b/examples/storm-starter/pom.xml
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diff --git a/external/storm-blobstore-migration/pom.xml b/external/storm-blobstore-migration/pom.xml
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diff --git a/external/storm-hdfs-blobstore/pom.xml b/external/storm-hdfs-blobstore/pom.xml
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diff --git a/external/storm-kafka-monitor/pom.xml b/external/storm-kafka-monitor/pom.xml
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/pom.xml
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/storm-autocreds-bin/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/storm-autocreds-bin/pom.xml
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index 3414571..703b8cc 100644
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/storm-kafka-monitor-bin/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/storm-kafka-monitor-bin/pom.xml
index b0b2048..1b6a050 100644
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/storm-sql-core-bin/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/storm-sql-core-bin/pom.xml
index a675af1..378e0cd 100644
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/storm-sql-runtime-bin/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/storm-sql-runtime-bin/pom.xml
index ebaf0ca..610caa6 100644
--- a/storm-dist/binary/storm-sql-runtime-bin/pom.xml
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/storm-submit-tools-bin/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/storm-submit-tools-bin/pom.xml
index 5122239..a442a09 100644
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diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/storm-webapp-bin/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/storm-webapp-bin/pom.xml
index 58cd562..3c81bc8 100644
--- a/storm-dist/binary/storm-webapp-bin/pom.xml
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diff --git a/storm-dist/source/pom.xml b/storm-dist/source/pom.xml
index 5386c49..cb0674a 100644
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diff --git a/storm-multilang/javascript/pom.xml b/storm-multilang/javascript/pom.xml
index 678f207..b752271 100644
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diff --git a/storm-multilang/python/pom.xml b/storm-multilang/python/pom.xml
index 6ccad92..fc52dbe 100644
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diff --git a/storm-multilang/ruby/pom.xml b/storm-multilang/ruby/pom.xml
index db6e865..130d9e9 100644
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diff --git a/storm-server/pom.xml b/storm-server/pom.xml
index f32a587..b0ad175 100644
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diff --git a/storm-shaded-deps/pom.xml b/storm-shaded-deps/pom.xml
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diff --git a/storm-submit-tools/pom.xml b/storm-submit-tools/pom.xml
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diff --git a/storm-webapp/pom.xml b/storm-webapp/pom.xml
index e6e97cb..7ff751f 100644
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
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