diff --git a/dist/apache-commons.jar b/dist/apache-commons.jar
index 3a70632be..5fe6c0b2d 100644
Binary files a/dist/apache-commons.jar and b/dist/apache-commons.jar differ
diff --git a/dist/apache-http.jar b/dist/apache-http.jar
index 8650c0b15..803f1c09d 100644
Binary files a/dist/apache-http.jar and b/dist/apache-http.jar differ
diff --git a/dist/log4j.jar b/dist/log4j.jar
index 5846b3707..239076ecc 100644
Binary files a/dist/log4j.jar and b/dist/log4j.jar differ
diff --git a/plugins/build-common.xml b/plugins/build-common.xml
index f8392f1c2..32b347eb1 100644
--- a/plugins/build-common.xml
+++ b/plugins/build-common.xml
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
         <jar destfile="${plugin.jar}" basedir="${plugin.build.dir}" manifest="${manifest}" manifestencoding="UTF-8" duplicate="preserve" level="9">
             <restrict>
                 <not><or>
-                    <name name="META-INF/maven/*"/>
+                    <!-- Do not exclude META-INF/maven/* - it removes dependency version information -->
                     <name name="META-INF/DEPENDENCIES"/>
                     <name name="META-INF/LICENSE"/>
                     <name name="META-INF/NOTICE"/>
@@ -761,4 +761,7 @@
         <ivy:resolve />
         <ivy:retrieve pattern="${plugin.lib.dir}/[artifact]-[revision](-[classifier]).[ext]" conf="default" />
     </target>
+    <target name="ivy-checkdepsupdate" description="Display dependency updates on the console" depends="fetch_dependencies">
+        <ivy:checkdepsupdate/>
+    </target>
 </project>