diff --git a/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml b/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml
index f7341764..177b6de4 100644
--- a/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml
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index d03edcff..986e2efd 100644
--- a/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml
index bbdd973f..efd4e667 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml
index b98bb7f5..171d0c66 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml
index 4305156d..6ac30654 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml
index 259bd0fe..6ad145ea 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml
index 00c5c5db..e69189b4 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml
index ebc9b35c..a1989e58 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml
index 99144b81..5a02931d 100644
--- a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml
index da2bc81a..6f19a293 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml
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index 87dcd1bb..88a01e9b 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml
index d07a5548..67ace109 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml
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index 8a29a9dd..5819357f 100644
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index 9e3e229d..a4c983f0 100644
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