code: public static UpdateInfo isUpdateAvailable(URL repoBaseURL, String mavenGroupID, String mavenArtifactID,
                                                 String mavenClassifier) {
          return isUpdateAvailable(repoBaseURL, mavenGroupID, mavenArtifactID, mavenClassifier, "jar");
      }
docs: Checks if a new release has been published on the website. This does not
  compare the current app version to the release version on the website,
  just checks if something happened on the website. This ensures that
  updates that were ignored by the user do not show up again. Assumes that
  the artifact has a jar-packaging.
  
  @param repoBaseURL     The base url of the maven repo to use
  @param mavenGroupID    The maven groupId of the artifact to update
  @param mavenArtifactID The maven artifactId of the artifact to update
  @param mavenClassifier The maven classifier of the artifact to update
  @return {@code true} if a new release is available and the user did not
  ignore it.