What would be the easiest way to tell `Gradle` the following:

> 
> Retrieve 'junit' dependency and take its latest 'release' version.
> 
> 
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Managing Maven and Ivy repositories is sort of new to me. I tried the following steps and they result in `Could not resolve dependency ...` error:

* Write `compile "junit:junit:latest.release"` with repositories set to only `mavenCentral()` *(however, it works if I say "junit:junit:4.10").*
* Write `compile "junit:junit:latest.release"` with repository set the following way:

```
ivy {
    // I also tried 'http://maven.org' and other possible variants.           
    url "http://repo1.maven.org" 
    layout "maven"
}

```
* Attempted to use Spring Source Ivy repository:

```
ivy {
    artifactPattern "http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/libraries/release/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"
    ivyPattern "http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/libraries/release/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"
}

```

Maybe I misunderstand something. Why would getting the **latest** version of the dependency be such a hard task?