Dependency 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security:2.2.6.RELEASE' not found

Question

I am new to Spring so I would really appreciate if anyone of you can help me in this. I am adding a dependency of spring-boot-starter-security with a current version of 2.2.6.RELEASE and my parent is also having the same version. But still am getting an error-

Dependency 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security:2.2.6.RELEASE' not found .Tag name: artifactId Description : The unique id for an artifact produced by the project group, e.g. maven-artifact. Version : 3.0.0+ *

**Sorry in advance for any mistake ! **

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">*


    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.6.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.arpita</groupId>
    <artifactId>security_first</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>security_first</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>11</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-security -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.6.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

Try deleting .m2/or.springframework/ from maven local repo and re-import everything by doing mvn clean install — nabster
And there's no need to define <version> of spring-boot-starter-security since you're using spring-boot-starter-parent as a parent pom. — Mikhail Kopylov
Thanks a lot it helped ! Deleting the .m2 repository and mvn clean install helped my application is working fine. — Arpita Mitra

Erwin Smith Erwin Smith · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-25T07:24:16

file -> invalidate caches/restart and it will work.

Dependency 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security:2.2.6.RELEASE' not found

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