<p>In Maven, dependencies are usually set up like this:</p>

<pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;wonderful-inc&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;dream-library&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.2.3&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Now, if you are working with libraries that have frequent releases, constantly updating the &lt;version&gt; tag can be somewhat annoying. Is there any way to tell Maven to always use the latest available version (from the repository)? </p>

Are you possibly depending on development versions that obviously change a lot during development?
Instead of incrementing the version of development releases, you could just use a snapshot version that you overwrite when necessary, which means you wouldn't have to change the version tag on every minor change. Something like 1.0-SNAPSHOT...
But maybe you are trying to achieve something else ;)