updating to latest dependencies

pom.xml

@@ -10,8 +10,17 @@
 	<description>A custom cucumber-jvm formatter using ExtentReports</description>
 
 	<properties>
+		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
+		<java.version>1.7</java.version>
 		<extentreports.version>2.41.1</extentreports.version>
-		<cucumber.version>1.2.4</cucumber.version>
+		<cucumber.version>1.2.5</cucumber.version>
+		<junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
+		<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.5.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+		<nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>1.6.7</nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>
+		<maven-source-plugin.version>3.0.1</maven-source-plugin.version>
+		<maven-javadoc-plugin.version>2.10.4</maven-javadoc-plugin.version>
+		<maven-gpg-plugin.version>1.6</maven-gpg-plugin.version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<licenses>
@@ -63,7 +72,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-			<version>4.12</version>
+			<version>${junit.version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
@@ -84,10 +93,10 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>3.3</version>
+				<version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<source>1.7</source>
-					<target>1.7</target>
+					<source>${java.version}</source>
+					<target>${java.version}</target>
 					<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
@@ -102,7 +111,7 @@
 					<plugin>
 						<groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
 						<artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-						<version>1.6.3</version>
+						<version>${nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version}</version>
 						<extensions>true</extensions>
 						<configuration>
 							<serverId>ossrh</serverId>
@@ -114,7 +123,7 @@
 					<plugin>
 						<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 						<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-						<version>2.2.1</version>
+						<version>${maven-source-plugin.version}</version>
 						<executions>
 							<execution>
 								<id>attach-sources</id>
@@ -128,7 +137,7 @@
 					<plugin>
 						<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 						<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-						<version>2.10.3</version>
+						<version>${maven-javadoc-plugin.version}</version>
 						<executions>
 							<execution>
 								<id>attach-javadocs</id>
@@ -142,7 +151,7 @@
 					<plugin>
 						<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 						<artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-						<version>1.5</version>
+						<version>${maven-gpg-plugin.version}</version>
 						<executions>
 							<execution>
 								<id>sign-artifacts</id>