diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d1bbb71800a18a24d1571d0c525f280dd4323946..a61c695cb201a0c2e026602af9233a204b449420 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@
 
 		<!-- NB: Deploy releases to the SciJava Maven repository. -->
 		<releaseProfiles>deploy-to-scijava</releaseProfiles>
+
+		<commons-cli.version>1.2</commons-cli.version>
+		<stringtemplate.version>3.2.1</stringtemplate.version>
+
+		<!-- TODO: Remove these version pins and update the code. -->
+		<bigdataviewer-core.version>3.0.3</bigdataviewer-core.version>
+		<imglib2.version>3.3.0</imglib2.version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<repositories>
@@ -103,12 +110,12 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
 			<artifactId>stringtemplate</artifactId>
-			<version>3.2.1</version>
+			<version>${stringtemplate.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
-			<version>1.2</version>
+			<version>${commons-cli.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 </project>