The WildFly pom.xml is overriding the version of WildFly Client Config ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-8735 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-8735 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: Build System Reporter: Tomaz Cerar Assignee: Tomaz Cerar This was introduce under the following commit to address transitive dependency issues: - commit b49586d5c90e673aa1abceef3c047257da6cb19e Author: Tomaz Cerar <tomaz.cerar(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Mon Apr 24 17:13:16 2017 +0200 JBEAP-10175 JBEAP-10174 Unmanaged transitive dependencies in EJB client BOM dependency tree However the version override means a version upgrade in core does not get applied to EAP.