diff --git a/ivy/src/main/scala/sbt/MakePom.scala b/ivy/src/main/scala/sbt/MakePom.scala
index 5e49243d3..4c4b7c8d0 100644
--- a/ivy/src/main/scala/sbt/MakePom.scala
+++ b/ivy/src/main/scala/sbt/MakePom.scala
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class MakePom(val log: Logger)
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>{mrid.getOrganisation}</groupId>
 			<artifactId>{mrid.getName}</artifactId>
-			<version>{mrid.getRevision}</version>
+			<version>{makeDependencyVersion(mrid.getRevision)}</version>
 			{ scopeElem(scope) }
 			{ optionalElem(optional) }
 			{ classifierElem(classifier) }
@@ -197,6 +197,25 @@ class MakePom(val log: Logger)
 		</dependency>
 	}
 
+
+
+	def makeDependencyVersion(revision: String): String = {
+		if(revision endsWith "+") try {
+			// TODO - this is the slowest possible implementation.
+			val beforePlus = revision.reverse.dropWhile(_ != '.').drop(1).reverse
+			val lastVersion = beforePlus.reverse.takeWhile(_ != '.').reverse
+			val lastVersionInt = lastVersion.toInt
+			val prefixVersion = beforePlus.reverse.dropWhile(_ != '.').drop(1).reverse
+			s"[$beforePlus, ${prefixVersion}.${lastVersionInt+1})"
+		} catch {
+			case e: NumberFormatException => 
+			  // TODO - if the version deosn't meet our expectations, maybe we just issue a hard
+			  //        error instead of softly ignoring the attempt to rewrite.
+			  //sys.error(s"Could not fix version [$revision] into maven style version")
+			  revision
+		} else revision
+	}
+
 	@deprecated("No longer used and will be removed.", "0.12.1")
 	def classifier(dependency: DependencyDescriptor, includeTypes: Set[String]): NodeSeq =
 	{
diff --git a/sbt/src/sbt-test/dependency-management/make-pom/project/MakePomTest.scala b/sbt/src/sbt-test/dependency-management/make-pom/project/MakePomTest.scala
index 342c4cf42..3f5f893fa 100644
--- a/sbt/src/sbt-test/dependency-management/make-pom/project/MakePomTest.scala
+++ b/sbt/src/sbt-test/dependency-management/make-pom/project/MakePomTest.scala
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ object MakePomTest extends Build
 		for {
 			dep <- pomXml \ "dependencies" \ "dependency"
 			if (dep \ "artifactId").text == "jsr305"
-			if (dep \ "version").text contains "+"
+			if (dep \ "version").text != "[1.3, 1.4)"
 		} sys.error(s"Found dependency with invalid maven version: $dep")
 		()
 	}