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

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.3.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven JAR Plugin - Version 3.3.0

• Bug:

  • MJAR-275 - outputTimestamp not applied to module-info; breaks reproducible builds

• Tasks:

  • MJAR-278 - Update plugin (requires Maven 3.2.5+)
  • MJAR-280 - Java 8 as minimum

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MJAR-288 - Upgrade Parent to 36
  • MJAR-290 - Update Plexus Utils to 3.4.2
  • MJAR-291 - Upgrade Parent to 37

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.4.0.

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 dependencies.

Notes:

• Starting from this release you need JDK8 as minimum.
• Minimum Maven Version 3.1.1.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.4.0</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 3.4.0

• Bug:

  • MSHADE-425 - Maven shade plugin build fails without 'clean' goal

• Tasks:

  • MSHADE-393 - Upgrade project from Java 7 to 8
  • MSHADE-416 - Jenkins URL is wrong.
  • MSHADE-423 - Get rid of commons-lang3

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHADE-415 - Upgrade maven-plugin parent to 37
  • MSHADE-424 - Upgrade jdependency 2.8.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.19.0

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:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.19.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.19.0

• Bug:

  • MPMD-353 - API incompatibility with jansi after upgrading m-shared-utils

• Task:

  • MPMD-354 - Upgrade to PMD 6.49.0

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.18.0

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:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.18.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.18.0

• New Feature:

  • MPMD-348 - Support Java 19

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MPMD-345 - Upgrade to PMD 6.47.0
  • MPMD-347 - Upgrade to PMD 6.48.0
  • MPMD-349 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1/Maven Reporting Impl to 3.2.0
  • MPMD-350 - Upgrade Maven Shared Utils to 3.3.4
  • MPMD-351 - Upgrade Maven Artifact Transfer to 0.13.1
  • MPMD-352 - Upgrade Maven Common Artifact Filters to 3.3.1

Compatibility Notice:

• For technical reasons the parameter sourceEncoding has been replaced with inputEncoding.
  • For details please see MPMD-349
  • Git commit

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PDF Plugin, version 1.6.1.

This plug-in allows you to generate a PDF version of your project's documentation.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-pdf-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>1.6.1</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven PDF Plugin - Version 1.6.1

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MPDF-105 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

This module generates browsable HTML pages from Java source code.

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

1<plugin>
2   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3   <artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
4   <version>3.3.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven JXR - Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • JXR-166 - Two versions of velocity engines on plugin classpath
  • JXR-170 - NullPointerException while parsing Java 15 multi-line String source

• Task:

  • JXR-174 - Revert JXR-157 until next major version

• Dependency upgrades:

  • JXR-171 - Bump plexus-utils from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2
  • JXR-172 - Upgrade Parent to 37, project cleanup
  • JXR-173 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1/Maven Reporting Impl to 3.2.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

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.

Important Notes since Version 3.3.0

• JDK 8 minimum requirement
• Minimum Maven version 3.2.5

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.3.0</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Help Plugin - Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MPH-164 - Effective-pom ignores artifact argument
  • MPH-171 - Plugin repositories are not preserved from project pom

• Improvements:

  • MPH-162 - Allow all mojos to be configured to produce repeatable output
  • MPH-167 - make build Reproducible
  • MPH-170 - Require Maven 3.1.1 (drop dependency to Maven 3.0)

• Tasks:

  • MPH-187 - Upgrade to JDK minimum
  • MPH-188 - Cleanup - Pom

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MPH-174 - Upgrade XStream to 1.4.17
  • MPH-179 - Upgrade XStream to 1.4.18
  • MPH-186 - maven-parent to 37
  • MPH-190 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.4.1

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.4.1</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Project Info Reports Plugin - Version 3.4.1

• Bug:

  • MPIR-423 - dependencies goal doesn't create required resources

• Dependency upgrade:

  • MPIR-424 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1/Maven Reporting Impl to 3.2.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin, version 3.4.1.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.4.1</version>
5</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 3.4.1

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MJAVADOC-719 - Update Maven Archiver to 3.6.0
  • MJAVADOC-723 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1/Complete with Maven Reporting Impl 3.2.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.12.1.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.12.1</version>
5</plugin>   

Release Notes - Maven Site Plugin - Version 3.12.1

• Bug:

  • MSITE-901 - If preceding standalone report has been run, site:jar does not reinvoke site:site

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSITE-897 - Upgrade Plexus Archiver to 4.2.7
  • MSITE-898 - Upgrade Parent to 36
  • MSITE-902 - Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.4.2
  • MSITE-908 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Resources Plugin, Version 3.3.0.

The Resources Plugin handles the copying of project resources to the output directory. There are two different kinds of resources: main resources and test resources. The difference is that the main resources are the resources associated to the main source code while the test resources are associated to the test source code.

Thus, this allows the separation of resources for the main source code and its unit tests.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.3.0</version>
5</plugin>

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

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

Release Notes - Apache Maven Resources Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MRESOURCES-237 - Resource plugin's handling of symbolic links changed in 3.0.x, broke existing behavior
  • MRESOURCES-265 - Resource copying not using specified encoding
  • MRESOURCES-268 - java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1
  • MRESOURCES-269 - Symlinks cause copying resources to fail
  • MRESOURCES-273 - Filtering of Maven properties with long names is not working after transition from 2.6 to 3.2.0
  • MRESOURCES-275 - valid location for directory parameter is always required

• New Feature:

  • MRESOURCES-250 - Add ability to flatten folder structure into target directory when copying resources

• Tasks:

  • MRESOURCES-277 - Update plugin (requires Maven 3.2.5+)
  • MRESOURCES-283 - Require Java 8

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MRESOURCES-282 - Upgrade maven-plugin parent to 36
  • MRESOURCES-286 - Upgrade Maven Filtering to 3.3.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 4.0.0-M3.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>4.0.0-M3</version>
5</plugin>   

Release Notes - Maven Site Plugin - Version 4.0.0-M3

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSITE-905 - Upgrade Doxia and Maven Reporting stack
  • MSITE-906 - Upgrade plugins and components

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Install Plugin, version 3.0.1.

The Install Plugin is used during the install phase to add artifact(s) to the local repository. The Install Plugin uses the information in the POM (groupId, artifactId, version) to determine the proper location for the artifact within the local repository.

NOTE:

• Plugin is Java7 level and compatible with Maven 3.2.5+

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.0.1</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Install Plugin Version 3.0.1

• Bug:

  • MINSTALL-160 - generatePom=true with 3.0.0-M1 does not generate minimal POM but copies existing one

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.4.2.

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:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.4.2</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Assembly Plugin - Version 3.4.2

• Bug:

  • MASSEMBLY-969 - Excludes filtering in 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 differs from 3.3.0

• Task:

  • MASSEMBLY-949 - Examples should refer to https instead of http

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team