title: Using the Nexus rest API to get latest artifact version for given groupid/artifactId
body: <p>I am trying to use the nexus REST api to get the latest version of a maven artifact. I am able to browse to the specific version I am looking for using <code>http://repo.local/service/local/data_index?a=local-turbogears-server&amp;from=0&amp;g=com.turbo&amp;c=bin&amp;v=1.1.9</code> and if I remove the version parameter I can see every version. However when I try and use RELEASE or LATEST as the version then it returns zero results. 
  I checked the maven-metadata.xml on disk in nexus and there are entries for latest and release. Is there another step I need to take to return the latest version?</p>
  
  <p>I am currently using:</p>
  
  <p>Nexus v. 1.9.2</p>