diff --git a/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java b/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java
index ff6310821da9..ef84afdcf5c8 100644
--- a/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java
+++ b/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
  *   over {@code 1.0.0.X1}.</li>
  * </ul>
  *
- * @see <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Versioning">"Versioning" on Maven Wiki</a>
+ * @see <a href="https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#version-order-specification">"Versioning" in the POM reference</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:kenney@apache.org">Kenney Westerhof</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:hboutemy@apache.org">Hervé Boutemy</a>
  */
diff --git a/maven-artifact/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersionTest.java b/maven-artifact/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersionTest.java
index 5695a2b9ae1a..fc382046ee0c 100644
--- a/maven-artifact/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersionTest.java
+++ b/maven-artifact/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersionTest.java
@@ -32,12 +32,11 @@
  */
 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 public class ComparableVersionTest {
-    private Comparable newComparable(String version) {
+    private ComparableVersion newComparable(String version) {
         ComparableVersion ret = new ComparableVersion(version);
         String canonical = ret.getCanonical();
         String parsedCanonical = new ComparableVersion(canonical).getCanonical();
 
-        System.out.println("canonical( " + version + " ) = " + canonical);
         assertEquals(
                 canonical,
                 parsedCanonical,
@@ -95,11 +94,11 @@ private void checkVersionsOrder(String[] versions) {
     private void checkVersionsEqual(String v1, String v2) {
         Comparable c1 = newComparable(v1);
         Comparable c2 = newComparable(v2);
-        assertTrue(c1.compareTo(c2) == 0, "expected " + v1 + " == " + v2);
-        assertTrue(c2.compareTo(c1) == 0, "expected " + v2 + " == " + v1);
-        assertTrue(c1.hashCode() == c2.hashCode(), "expected same hashcode for " + v1 + " and " + v2);
-        assertTrue(c1.equals(c2), "expected " + v1 + ".equals( " + v2 + " )");
-        assertTrue(c2.equals(c1), "expected " + v2 + ".equals( " + v1 + " )");
+        assertEquals(0, c1.compareTo(c2), "expected " + v1 + " == " + v2);
+        assertEquals(0, c2.compareTo(c1), "expected " + v2 + " == " + v1);
+        assertEquals(c1.hashCode(), c2.hashCode(), "expected same hashcode for " + v1 + " and " + v2);
+        assertEquals(c1, c2, "expected " + v1 + ".equals( " + v2 + " )");
+        assertEquals(c2, c1, "expected " + v2 + ".equals( " + v1 + " )");
     }
 
     private void checkVersionsArrayEqual(String[] array) {
@@ -209,6 +208,26 @@ public void testVersionComparing() {
         checkVersionsOrder("2.0.1-xyz", "2.0.1-123");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testLeadingZeroes() {
+        checkVersionsOrder("0.7", "2");
+        checkVersionsOrder("0.2", "1.0.7");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetCanonical() {
+        // MNG-7700
+        newComparable("0.x");
+        newComparable("0-x");
+        newComparable("0.rc");
+        newComparable("0-1");
+
+        ComparableVersion version = new ComparableVersion("0.x");
+        assertEquals("x", version.getCanonical());
+        ComparableVersion version2 = new ComparableVersion("0.2");
+        assertEquals("0.2", version2.getCanonical());
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5568">MNG-5568</a> edge case
      * which was showing transitive inconsistency: since A &gt; B and B &gt; C then we should have A &gt; C
@@ -343,7 +362,7 @@ public void testReuse() {
         ComparableVersion c1 = new ComparableVersion("1");
         c1.parseVersion("2");
 
-        Comparable c2 = newComparable("2");
+        Comparable<?> c2 = newComparable("2");
 
         assertEquals(c1, c2, "reused instance should be equivalent to new instance");
     }