Setting to sort by release timestamp or version

[GiovaniFerraroTrivelli]

Hello!

Would it be possible to add a setting that lets us choose which field the results are sorted by? The API currently sorts every version by timestamp, so bugfix releases for older versions sometimes appear ahead of the actual latest release, and the plugin doesn’t always show the newest version.

Example:

https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?wt=json&core=gav&q=g:%20com.fasterxml.jackson.core%20+AND+a:%20jackson-core%20

Latest version: 2.19.0
By timestamp: 2.18.4

Maven Repository: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core

Thanks!

[mwalter]

Thanks a lot for your input! I'm going to analyse your proposal. Thing is, not all artifacts use SemVer (e.g. org.json uses date-time pattern), but changing the sorting might work. Will have to try and experiment a little bit.

So more artifacts to watch out:
jaxb-api
commons-beanutils