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

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

Important Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

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

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 3.1.2

Bug:

• MJAR-259 – Archiving to jar is very slow

Improvement:

• MJAR-238 – Allow setting of module main class

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.22.2.

The release contains 17 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming!

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.2</version>
</plugin>

or for failsafe:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.2</version>
</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.2</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Surefire – Version 2.22.2

Bugs:

• SUREFIRE-1614– JUnit Runner that writes to System.out corrupts Surefire’s STDOUT when using JUnit’s Vintage Engine

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Compiler Plugin, version 3.8.1.

The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project.

Important Notes since Version 3.8.1

• The default value for source/target has been lifted from 1.5 to 1.6 see MCOMPILER-335.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.8.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Compiler Plugin – Version 3.8.1

Bugs:

• MCOMPILER-306 – Incorrect compilerArgs example usage
• MCOMPILER-349 – maven-compiler-plugin does not recompile a module if a dependency module has been updated & recompiled
• MCOMPILER-360 – NPE when calculating modulepath with invalid entries
• MCOMPILER-379 – Fatal error compiling: basedir … arget/generated-sources/annotations does not exist

Improvements:

• MCOMPILER-322 – Set the JPMS module version
• MCOMPILER-366 – Warning about automodules should provide the list of offending libraries

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Archetype Plugin, version 3.1.0.

In short, Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit. An archetype is defined as an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made. The names fits as we are trying to provide a system that provides a consistent means of generating Maven projects. Archetype will help authors create Maven project templates for users, and provides users with the means to generate parameterized versions of those project templates.

https://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/index.html

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-archetype-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>

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

[Release Notes – Maven Archetype Plugin – Version 3.1.0]

Bugs:

• ARCHETYPE-492 Underscore in filenames problematic due to greedy regex
• ARCHETYPE-530 [archetype:create-from-project] Proxy configuration from settings.xml is not taken into account
• ARCHETYPE-534 archetype-descriptor.xsd is out of date

New Features:

• ARCHETYPE-553 Allow additional properties for IntegrationTestMojo’s MavenInvoker
• ARCHETYPE-554 create archetype-descriptor-1.1.0.xsd containing validation regexp

Improvements:

• ARCHETYPE-536 Update Groovy dependency and enable Groovy Grape in archetype-post-generate.groovy script (by including Ivy dependency)
• ARCHETYPE-560 Require Java 7

Task:

• ARCHETYPE-542 switch from Git-WIP to Gitbox

Dependency upgrades:

• ARCHETYPE-543 Upgrade modello from 1.8.3 to 1.9.1
• ARCHETYPE-544 Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• ARCHETYPE-545 Upgrade parent to 33
• ARCHETYPE-551 Upgrade maven-invoker to 3.0.1
• ARCHETYPE-557 Upgrade surefire to 2.22.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.12.0

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>3.12.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven PMD Plugin – Version 3.12.0

Bugs:

• MPMD-277 – Plugin tries to download local submodules from repo

New Features:

• MPMD-280 – Support targetJdk 12
• MPMD-281 – Display found violations grouped by priority

Improvements:

• MPMD-279 – Improve documentation of maxAllowedViolations
• MPMD-282 – Add rule name to HTML report

Dependency upgrades:

• MPMD-275 – Upgrade to PMD 6.13.0
• MPMD-284 – Upgrade parent to 33

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

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

The Maven Help Plugin is used to get relative information about a project or the system. It can be used to get a description of a particular plugin, including the plugin’s goals with their parameters and component requirements, the effective POM and effective settings of the current build, and the profiles applied to the current project being built.

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

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Help Plugin – Version 3.2.0

New Feature:

• MPH-160 – help:effective-pom -Dverbose: add source location as comments in effective pom.xml

Improvement:

• MPH-161 – add color to goal or plugin description

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

The Invoker Plugin is used to run a set of Maven projects. The plugin can determine whether each project execution is successful, and optionally can verify the output generated from a given project execution.

This plugin is in particular handy to perform integration tests for other Maven plugins. The Invoker Plugin can be employed to run a set of test projects that have been designed to assert certain features of the plugin under test.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-invoker-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-invoker-plugin/download.cgi

Release Notes – Maven Invoker Plugin – Version 3.2.0

Bug:

• MINVOKER-243 – invoker:install doesn’t copy transitive dependencies anymore (as of 3.1.0)

Improvements:

• MINVOKER-190 – build.log file location causes problems
• MINVOKER-225 – strange message ordering in case of post-build script failure
• MINVOKER-245 – Support toolchain selector
• MINVOKER-246 – Support hierarchical invoker.properties

Dependency upgrade:

• MINVOKER-239 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

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.

Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 miminum requirement.

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>3.1.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Assembly Plugin – Version 3.1.1

Bugs:

• MASSEMBLY-675 – Maven Assembly packaging wildcard-excluded dependencies
• MASSEMBLY-762 – Assembly plugin doesn’t exclude transitive dependencies when excluded by wildcards in dependencies section
• MASSEMBLY-799 – Exclusion on wildcard, then the assembly would still package to include the excluded libraries
• MASSEMBLY-861 – exclusion * also packaged
• MASSEMBLY-873 – Maven-Assembly-Plugin freezes when building jar-with-dependencies of project depending on org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on:1.58
• MASSEMBLY-893 – Typo in FAQ

Tasks:

• MASSEMBLY-885 – remove unused unpack code
• MASSEMBLY-898 – upgrade to plexus-io 3.1.1
• MASSEMBLY-899 – Make deprecated and non used of parameter useJvmChmod parameter (plugin is now 1.7)
• MASSEMBLY-901 – Fix trivial javadocs HTML errors
• MASSEMBLY-902 – Some Integration tests fails if launched with an very large UID

Dependency upgrades:

• MASSEMBLY-876 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MASSEMBLY-882 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MASSEMBLY-884 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0
• MASSEMBLY-890 – Upgrade plexus-interpolation to 1.25
• MASSEMBLY-892 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 33
• MASSEMBLY-900 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 4.0.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

Important Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

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

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 3.1.1

Bug:

• MJAR-241 – Jar package does not have a size in ZipEntry

Improvement:

• MJAR-260 – Upgrade to Archiver 3.3.0 and add ITs

Task:

• MJAR-251 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Dependency upgrades:

• MJAR-252 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0
• MJAR-255 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
• MJAR-256 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.12
• MJAR-261 – Upgrade plexus-archiver 3.7.0

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

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

The Maven Help Plugin is used to get relative information about a project or the system. It can be used to get a description of a particular plugin, including the plugin’s goals with their parameters and component requirements, the effective POM and effective settings of the current build, and the profiles applied to the current project being built.

Important Notes since Version 3.0.0

• Maven 3+ only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

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

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Help Plugin – Version 3.1.1

Improvement:

• MPH-154 – The output of the plugin should be flushed when using forceStdout

Dependency upgrades:

• MPH-153 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
• MPH-156 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer to 0.10.0
• MPH-157 – Upgrade plexus-interactivity-api 1.0-alpha-6
• MPH-158 – Upgrade xstream 1.4.11.1
• MPH-159 – Upgrade JUnit 4.12

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Shared Component: Apache Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.11.0

Analyzes the dependencies of a project for undeclared or unused artifacts.

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-analyzer</artifactId>
  <version>1.11.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes

Improvements:

• MSHARED-770 – Upgrade org.ow2.asm:asm to 7.0
• MSHARED-780 – Add GitHub Informations.

Dependency upgrades:

• MSHARED-776 – Upgrade maven-shared-components to 33
• MSHARED-779 – Upgrade maven-invoker to 3.0.1

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

Karl-Heinz Marbaise

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.1.

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>3.2.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.2.1

Bug:

• MSHADE-302 – maven-shade-plugin fails to minimize JAR with Java 11

Improvement:

• MSHADE-303 – Suppress module-info.class warning if the file if filtered

Task:

• MSHADE-301 – java11 support

Dependency upgrade:

• MSHADE-299 – Upgrade maven-dependency-tree to 3.0.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Plugin Tools, version 3.6.0.

The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to generate
rebarbative content like descriptor, help and documentation. In addition,
it provides tools to write Maven Plugins in scripting languages like Ant
or Beanshell.

The Maven Plugin Plugin is used to create a Maven plugin descriptor for
any Mojo’s found in the source tree, to include in the JAR. It is also
used to generate report files for the Mojos as well as for updating the
plugin registry, the artifact metadata and generating a generic help goal.

• https://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/
• https://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/maven-plugin-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-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.6.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Plugin Tools – Version 3.6.0

Bugs:

• MPLUGIN-336 – broken in JDK 10/JDK 11 – IllegalArgumentException
• MPLUGIN-337 – Try to derive JDK requirements also from release parameter

Tasks:

• MPLUGIN-332 – remove plugin:updateRegistry goal, which is unused in Maven 3
• MPLUGIN-344 – Upgrade plexus-archiver 3.6.0

Dependency upgrade:

• MPLUGIN-342 – Upgrade maven-parent to 33

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Remote Resources Plugin, version 1.6.0

This plugin is used to retrieve JARs of resources from remote repositories, process those resources, and incorporate them into JARs you build with Maven.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-remote-resources-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.6.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Apache Maven Remote Resources Plugin – Version 1.6.0

Bugs:

• MRRESOURCES-70 – SVN settings: eol-style and keywords
• MRRESOURCES-73 – remote resources depends on unavailable maven filtering verison
• MRRESOURCES-74 – maven remote resources plugin not compatible with Java 8
• MRRESOURCES-75 – Currently running -Prun-its clean verify – fails
• MRRESOURCES-76 – Updated plexus-interpolation to fix possible concurrency issues
• MRRESOURCES-91 – Avoid overwrite of the destination file if the produced contents is the same
• MRRESOURCES-94 – Performance issue in ProcessRemoteResourcesMojo.configureVelocityContext(…)
• MRRESOURCES-101 – NPE – Error rendering velocity resource

Improvements:

• MRRESOURCES-79 – Removed dependency plexus-container-default:1.0-alpha-9-stable-1
• MRRESOURCES-84 – Print warning in case no encoding has been set.
• MRRESOURCES-86 – Remove unused dependency maven-monitor
• MRRESOURCES-88 – Added a note about .vm on the usage page
• MRRESOURCES-89 – Removed deprecated attributes
• MRRESOURCES-90 – Using project.isExecutionRoot() instead of the old way.

Wish:

• MRRESOURCES-111 – add INFO message on number of resources bundled/copied

Dependency upgrades:

• MRRESOURCES-77 – Upgrade maven-filtering to 1.3
• MRRESOURCES-78 – Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
• MRRESOURCES-80 – Upgrade to maven-parent version 26
• MRRESOURCES-82 – Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27
• MRRESOURCES-87 – Upgrade JUnit from 3.8.1 to 4.11
• MRRESOURCES-95 – Upgrade plexus-resources from 1.0-alpha-7 to 1.0.1
• MRRESOURCES-97 – Upgrade mavenplugins parent to version 30
• MRRESOURCES-99 – Upgrade of plexus-interpolation to 1.24.
• MRRESOURCES-100 – Upgrade maven-filtering to 3.1.1
• MRRESOURCES-103 – Upgrade parent to 32
• MRRESOURCES-104 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MRRESOURCES-107 – Upgrade JUnit from 4.11 to 4.12
• MRRESOURCES-108 – Upgrade plexus-interpolation to 1.25
• MRRESOURCES-109 – Upgrade plexus-utils from 3.0.24 to 3.1.0
• MRRESOURCES-110 – Upgrade parent to version 33

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.11.0

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>3.11.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven PMD Plugin – Version 3.11.0

Bugs:

• MPMD-268 – Missing warnings about deprecated rules
• MPMD-266 – Aggregate report in multi-module projects does not use correct auxclasspath

New Feature:

• MPMD-272 – Support ignoreAnnotations options for CPD

Tasks:

• MPMD-271 – Upgrade pmd 6.8.0
• MPMD-270 – JDK 11 compatibility

Enjoy,

-The Maven team