diff --git a/maven-version-rules.xml b/maven-version-rules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26383ccba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-version-rules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<ruleset comparisonMethod="maven"
+         xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">
+  <rules>
+    <!--
+    <rule groupId="*.maven" comparisonMethod="mercury"/>
+    <rule groupId="com.mycompany" comparisonMethod="numeric"/>
+    <rule groupId="com.mycompany.maven" comparisonMethod="maven"/>
+    <rule groupId="com.mycompany.maven" artifactId="old-maven-plugin" comparisonMethod="mercury"/>
+    -->
+
+    <rule groupId="commons-collections" artifactId="commons-collections">
+        <ignoreVersions>
+            <ignoreVersion type="regex">2003.*</ignoreVersion>
+            <ignoreVersion type="regex">2004.*</ignoreVersion>
+        </ignoreVersions>
+    </rule>
+    <rule groupId="commons-primitives" artifactId="commons-primitives">
+        <ignoreVersions>
+            <ignoreVersion type="regex">2004.*</ignoreVersion>
+        </ignoreVersions>
+    </rule>
+  </rules>
+</ruleset>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 699761e59..059843651 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>2.4</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <rulesUri>file:///${session.executionRootDirectory}/maven-version-rules.xml</rulesUri>
+                </configuration>
                 <reportSets>
                     <reportSet>
                         <reports>
@@ -288,6 +291,14 @@
                     <skip>true</skip>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <rulesUri>file:///${session.executionRootDirectory}/maven-version-rules.xml</rulesUri>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>