The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.3.0.

The Assembly Plugin for Maven is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files into a single distributable archive.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.3.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Assembly Plugin – Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MASSEMBLY-879 – useDefaultExcludes has no effect in dependencySet/unpack
  • MASSEMBLY-920 – ContainerDescriptorHandler for MetaInf-Services breaks folder structure
  • MASSEMBLY-932 – resource filtering skipped for resources in the current project

• New Features:

  • MASSEMBLY-922 – allow to override UID/GID and user name and group name for files stored in TAR (and other formats that store UID/GID)
  • MASSEMBLY-927 – Support for properties mapping on executions of maven-assembly-plugin
  • MASSEMBLY-934 – Support concatenation of files

• Improvements:

  • MASSEMBLY-765 – add property groupIdPath
  • MASSEMBLY-849 – Add nonFilteredFileExtensions to avoid filtering of binary files
  • MASSEMBLY-933 – make build Reproducible

• Dependency upgrade:

  • MASSEMBLY-924 – Upgrade commons-compress to 1.19

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Resolver, version 1.4.2

Apache Maven Artifact Resolver is a library for working with artifact repositories and dependency resolution.

Maven Artifact Resolver deals with the specification of local repository, remote repository, developer workspaces, artifact transports and artifact resolution.

It is expected to be extended by concrete repository implementation, like Maven Artifact Resolver Provider for Maven repositories or any other provider for other repository formats.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Resolver – Version Maven Artifact Resolver 1.4.2

• Bug:

  • MRESOLVER-38 – SOE/OOME in DefaultDependencyNode.accept

• Improvements:

  • MRESOLVER-93 – PathRecordingDependencyVisitor to handle 3 cycles
  • MRESOLVER-102 – make build Reproducible

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven Wagon 3.4.0.

Apache Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Mavens artifact and repository handling code.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Wagon – Version 3.4.0

• Bugs:

  • WAGON-568 – Fail to deploy on Sonatype OSS since Maven 3.5.4
  • WAGON-573 – EntityUtils.consumeQuietly() never called on non-2xx status codes
  • WAGON-576 – Retry handler docs are possibly wrong
  • WAGON-582 – HttpMethodConfiguration#copy() performs a shallow copy only

• Improvements:

  • WAGON-570 – Use RedirectStrategy from HttpClient rather than a custom approach
  • WAGON-580 – Improve and unify exception messages by status code types throughout HTTP providers
  • WAGON-585 – maven.wagon.http.ssl features documentation is incomplete
  • WAGON-586 – make build Reproducible
  • WAGON-588 – Handle 404 and 410 consistently in HTTP-based Wagon providers

• Task:

  • WAGON-579 – Handle SC_UNAUTHORIZED and SC_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED in all methods

• Dependency upgrades:

  • WAGON-577 – Upgrade HttpCore to 4.4.13
  • WAGON-578 – Upgrade HttpClient to 4.5.11
  • WAGON-581 – Upgrade HttpClient to 4.5.12
  • WAGON-589 – Upgrade Maven Shade Plugin to 3.2.3

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Fluido Skin Version 1.9.

The Apache Maven Fluido Skin is an Apache Maven site skin built on top of Twitter’s Bootstrap 2.3.2.

Please be aware of the new location of our issue tracker which has been moved from Codehaus to Apache Software Foundation

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<skin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.skins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-fluido-skin</artifactId>
  <version>1.9</version>
</skin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven Fluido Skin – Version 1.9

• Sub-task:

  • MSKINS-105 – Provide alt text for all images

• Bug:

  • MSKINS-157 – Fluido 1.8 has garbled footer

• Improvements:

  • MSKINS-160 – Broken links to JIRA
  • MSKINS-161 – Upgrade Facebook Like button integration
  • MSKINS-162 – Add GitHub Action to confirm PR build

• Task:

  • MSKINS-102 – Make Fluido-generated pages pass W3 HTML5 Validation Service

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSKINS-163 – Upgrade to parent POM 34
  • MSKINS-164 – Upgrade to Maven Invoker Plugin 3.2.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven AntRun Plugin, version 3.0.0.

This plugin provides the ability to run Ant tasks from within Maven. You can even embed your Ant scripts in the POM!

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page

Release Notes – Maven AntRunPlugin – Version 3.0.0

• Bugs:

  • MANTRUN-172 – Properties passed to Maven as -D don’t get passed to invocations when a profile sets the same property
  • MANTRUN-178 – Ignore precedence of mvn command line over property defined in section
  • MANTRUN-179 – Seems impossible to use combine.* attributes with maven-antrun-plugin configuration
  • MANTRUN-181 – AttachArtifact task does not work in external Ant build file
  • MANTRUN-192 – filterArtifacts in DependencyFilesetsTask includes entire maven.local.repository
  • MANTRUN-204 – antrun loops the backing map of java.util.Properties withouth checking type safety
  • MANTRUN-205 – maven-antrun-plugin pages at maven.apache.org still have bad url codehaus references
  • MANTRUN-221 – Fails to pass maven properties set in user properties only

• Improvements:

  • MANTRUN-201 – Migrate plugin to Maven 3.0
  • MANTRUN-202 – Fail the build when deprecated parameters tasks, sourceRoot or testSourceRoot are used
  • MANTRUN-217 – Require Java 7
  • MANTRUN-222 – make build Reproducible, upgrade maven-plugins pom to 34

• Tasks:

  • MANTRUN-209 – Add documentation information for GitHub
  • MANTRUN-211 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MANTRUN-203 – Upgrade to maven-plugins 30
  • MANTRUN-210 – Upgrade parent to 31
  • MANTRUN-212 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
  • MANTRUN-213 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
  • MANTRUN-214 – upgrade default Ant version to 1.9.14
  • MANTRUN-215 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
  • MANTRUN-218 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.13
  • MANTRUN-219 – Upgrade XMLUnit to 2.6.4 (test dependency)

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.3.

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade – i.e. rename – the packages of some of the dependencies.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.3</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.2.3

• Bug:

  • MSHADE-352 – shaded jars are not reproducible when using transformer

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHADE-355 – Java 15 Compatibility – JDependecny/ASM Upgrade
  • MSHADE-357 – Upgrade asm to 8.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Verifier, version 1.7.1.

This library provides a test harness for Maven integration tests.

You should specify the version in your project’s dependency configuration:

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<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-verifier</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.1</version>
</dependency>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Verifier – Version 1.7.1

• Bug:

  • MSHARED-872 – Embedded3xLauncher cannot be initialized

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Verifier, version 1.7.0.

This library provides a test harness for Maven integration tests.

You should specify the version in your project’s dependency configuration:

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<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-verifier</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.0</version>
</dependency>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Verifier – Version 1.7.0

• Bugs:

  • MSHARED-723 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
  • MSHARED-769 – FileNotFoundException not thrown for unknown property file

• New Feature:

  • MSHARED-855 – Support calling maven wrapper

• Improvements:

  • MSHARED-547 – Support colorized output checks (ignore ANSI escape codes)
  • MSHARED-768 – Require Java 7

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHARED-689 – Upgrade parent to 31
  • MSHARED-694 – Upgrade JUnit 3.8.2 to 4.12
  • MSHARED-734 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.1
  • MSHARED-751 – Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 32

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin, version 3.2.0.

The Javadoc Plugin uses the Javadoc tool to generate javadocs for the specified project.

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.0</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/download.cgi

Release Notes – Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin – Version 3.2.0

• Bugs:

  • MJAVADOC-607 – followLinks fix to get redirect target breaks for certain sites
  • MJAVADOC-609 – Include jars for which module name cannot be determined on the classpath
  • MJAVADOC-612 – UnsupportedOperationException for javadoc:aggregate with multi modules with jpms
  • MJAVADOC-616 – JavadocReportTest.testOptionsUmlautEncoding fails on Windows with default ecnoding that does not support umlauts
  • MJAVADOC-620 – Maven Javadoc Plugin fails to resolve the dependencies when used with Java 11
  • MJAVADOC-639 – aggregate should use all requires static from maven modules

• New Feature:

  • MJAVADOC-627 – Reproducible Builds: make entries in output jar files reproducible (order + timestamp)

• Improvements:

  • MJAVADOC-613 – Exclude some modules with aggregate goals
  • MJAVADOC-626 – Detect stale files and skip generation if not needed
  • MJAVADOC-632 – agggregate using jpms and non jar module is failing
  • MJAVADOC-636 – Exclude some modules when building aggregate
  • MJAVADOC-637 – make build Reproducible
  • MJAVADOC-640 – Ability to exclude maven modules from javadoc aggregate goals

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MJAVADOC-635 – upgrade plexus-java 1.0.4
  • MJAVADOC-638 – upgrade Doxia Sitetools to 1.9.2 to remove dependency on Struts

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Dependecy Plugin, version 3.1.2.

The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location.

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.2</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/download.cgi

Release Notes – Maven Dependency Plugin – Version 3.1.2

• Bugs:

  • MDEP-204 – go-offline fails to resolve artifact available in maven reactor
  • MDEP-545 – Several classes create mixed-style line endings
  • MDEP-579 – Regression: get goal does not pass server credentials to BasicRepositoryConnector
  • MDEP-613 – Analyze failed: Unsupported class file major version 55 (Java 11)
  • MDEP-655 – The unpack integration test fails intermittent.
  • MDEP-663 – Analyze failed: Unsupported class file major version 57 (Java 13)

• New Feature:

  • MDEP-628 – Unpacking File Mappers

• Improvements:

  • MDEP-653 – add info message to purge-local-repository goal even in non-verbose mode
  • MDEP-664 – Get goal misses unit tests
  • MDEP-672 – make build Reproducible

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MDEP-624 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
  • MDEP-625 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer to 0.11.0
  • MDEP-626 – Upgrade struts and xerces due to CVEs
  • MDEP-634 – Upgrade plexus-io to 3.1.0
  • MDEP-635 – Upgrade dependency-analyzer 1.11.0
  • MDEP-636 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils 3.2.1
  • MDEP-637 – Upgrade dependency-analyzer 1.11.0
  • MDEP-641 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 4.1.0
  • MDEP-642 – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.2.0
  • MDEP-647 – Upgrade maven-common-artifact-filters to 3.1.0
  • MDEP-656 – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.3.0
  • MDEP-668 – Upgrade plexus-interpolation 1.26
  • MDEP-673 – Upgrade asm to 7.3.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.9.0.

The Site Plugin is used to generate a site for the project. The generated site also includes the project’s reports that were configured in the POM.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/download.cgi

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.9.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Site Plugin – Version 3.9.0

• Bugs:

  • MSITE-847 – “$prerequisiteMavenVersion” text in plugin’s documentation
  • MSITE-853 – Upgrade Doxia to 1.9.1 to have Markdown code and “` support

• New Feature:

  • MSITE-851 – Reproducible Builds: make entries in output jar files reproducible (order + timestamp)

• Improvements:

  • MSITE-852 – Upgrade Doxia Site Renderer to 1.9.2 to remove Struts dependencies
  • MSITE-855 – make build Reproducible

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Doxia Site Tools Version 1.9.2, Released

Doxia Sitetools is an extension of base Doxia component that generates either HTML sites, consisting of decoration and content that was generated by Doxia, or documents like RTF or PDF.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:

https://maven.apache.org/doxia/doxia-sitetools/download.cgi

Release Notes – Maven Doxia base – Version 1.9.2

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Doxia Sitetools – Version 1.9.2

• Bug:

  • DOXIASITETOOLS-216 – Broken link on doxia-site-renderer documentation index

• Improvement:

  • DOXIASITETOOLS-218 – Make Doxia Sitetools build Reproducible

• Dependency upgrades:

  • DOXIASITETOOLS-213 – Upgrade Maven Default Skin to 1.3
  • DOXIASITETOOLS-215 – avoid reporting plugins pulling in Struts 1.3.8 jar
  • DOXIASITETOOLS-217 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.13

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 3.1.1.

The Checkstyle Plugin generates a report regarding the code style used by the developers. For more information about Checkstyle, see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin – Version 3.1.1

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin/download.cgi

• Bugs:

  • MCHECKSTYLE-380 – Issue tracking page for maven-checkstyle-plugin is not available
  • MCHECKSTYLE-384 – Incompatibility to Checkstyle version >= 8.24 – Upgrade to 8.28

• New Feature:

  • MCHECKSTYLE-371 – Add logViolationCountToConsole property

• Improvements:

  • MCHECKSTYLE-381 – Remove usage of deprecated class loading functionality from checkstyle
  • MCHECKSTYLE-390 – Upgrade to checkstyle 8.29

• Task:

  • MCHECKSTYLE-391 – Update parent to 34

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MCHECKSTYLE-388 – Update internal dependencies with low impact
  • MCHECKSTYLE-389 – MCHECKSTYLE-365 introduces regression with ‘rules’ aggregate count section on report

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.2.

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade – i.e. rename – the packages of some of the dependencies.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.2</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.2.2

• Bugs:

  • MSHADE-223 – Endless processing when promoteTransitiveDependencies=true
  • MSHADE-284 – Shaded test JARs are always empty
  • MSHADE-291 – shadedPattern applied multiples times when relocating the contents of META-INF/services files
  • MSHADE-298 – Groovy extension module transformer looking in incorrect META-INF directory
  • MSHADE-309 – issue tracker link on the web site of shade plugin does not work.
  • MSHADE-311 – Bad exclusions in dependency-reduced-pom.xml
  • MSHADE-315 – Broken link on Maven Shade Plugin
  • MSHADE-318 – Specifically included class’s dependencies are missing
  • MSHADE-331 – Issue Tracker link is not working – Page Not Found
  • MSHADE-337 – Relocation cannot process class file version 58 JARs
  • MSHADE-339 – Shaded test jar has wrong type “jar”
  • MSHADE-340 – Shaded test jar artifact is not attached

• New Features:

  • MSHADE-306 – Log all duplicates, not only classes
  • MSHADE-347 – Reproducible Builds: make entries in output jar files reproducible

• Improvements:

  • MSHADE-285 – It should be possible to shade test sources as a JAR
  • MSHADE-313 – Minimize jar should respect implementations under /META-INF/services/
  • MSHADE-316 – Minijar: true
  • MSHADE-319 – Group output into included and excluded artifacts to easily identify them
  • MSHADE-348 – Make build Reproducible

• Test:

  • MSHADE-327 – improved integration test coverage for relocation and minification

• Tasks:

  • MSHADE-322 – Provide a transformer for properties files
  • MSHADE-330 – Java 12 and 13 support
  • MSHADE-346 – Introduce mock repository manager for testing
  • MSHADE-350 – Enable ManifestResourceTransformer to rewrite the manifest with relocations

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHADE-320 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer to 0.11.0
  • MSHADE-338 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer 0.12.0
  • MSHADE-341 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.3.0
  • MSHADE-349 – Upgrade to org.ow2.asm:asm:7.3.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.13.0

A Maven plugin for the PMD toolkit, that produces a report on both code rule violations and detected copy and paste fragments, as well as being able to fail the build based on these metrics.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.13.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven PMD Plugin – Version 3.13.0

• Bugs:

  • MPMD-288 – NullPointerException when File.list() returns null
  • MPMD-289 – check: unable to find pmd.xml
  • MPMD-292 – PMD Log is not always integrated into maven log
  • MPMD-295 – Maven PMD Plugin fails on Java 13: Unsupported targetJdk value ‘13’

• New Feature:

  • MPMD-269 – Display PMD version that is being used

• Improvements:

  • MPMD-241 – Document the version relationship between plugin and pmd
  • MPMD-287 – Add additional contribution information for GitHub
  • MPMD-296 – Copy ruleset files into a subdirectory of target

• Wish:

  • MPMD-225 – Create report even if no warnings have been found by default

• Tasks:

  • MPMD-285 – remove pluginTools version override for build (which block reproducible build…)
  • MPMD-293 – Fix integration test builds on jenkins

Dependency upgrade:

MPMD-291 – Upgrade to PMD 6.21.0

Enjoy,

-The Maven team