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

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 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>3.2.0</version>
</plugin>

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.2.0

Bug:

• MSHADE-289 – Maven Shade Plugin does not work under Java 10

Improvement:

• MSHADE-293 – Require Java 7

Dependency upgrades:

• MSHADE-294 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
• MSHADE-296 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer 0.10.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Compiler Plugin, version 3.8.0.

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

Important Notes since Version 3.8.0

• 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>3.8.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Compiler Plugin – Version 3.8.0

Bugs:

• MCOMPILER-311 – NPE when —patch-module is used
• MCOMPILER-321 – Problematic Java 9 modules are silently ignored
• MCOMPILER-332 – Java 10 not supported
• MCOMPILER-338 – Build Issue based on MCOMPILER-192 IT
• MCOMPILER-342 – Unsupported class file major version 55
• MCOMPILER-343 – Tests fail to compile in modularized project due to wrong module descriptor path being passed to plexus-java

Improvements:

• MCOMPILER-313 – Support mrjar dependency with module descriptor only in META-INF/versions/x
• MCOMPILER-323 – Support multi-release jars
• MCOMPILER-335 – Update default source/target from 1.5 to 1.6
• MCOMPILER-341 – Compile module-info.java files located in test sources

Tasks:

• MCOMPILER-336 – Dependency that should be on modulepath sometime put on classpath
• MCOMPILER-344 – Deprecate flag
• MCOMPILER-350 – Add GitHub Documentation

Dependency upgrades:

• MCOMPILER-324 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MCOMPILER-351 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
• MCOMPILER-352 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.1
• MCOMPILER-353 – Upgrade plexus-compiler to 2.8.4

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.0.0

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Project Info Reports Plugin – Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

• MPIR-348 – Usage of HTTP in web site for git-scm.com resources cause redirects to HTTPS
• MPIR-349 – Bad modules links in ‘index/modules’ reports when ‘distributionManagement.site.url’ comes from settings.xml
• MPIR-359 – Generated links for Mercurial SCM are broken
• MPIR-362 – Dependency Management report doesn’t exclude system scoped dependencies
• MPIR-365 – Failed tests on Java 9 due to error with keytool plugin “keytool: not found”
• MPIR-370 – Upgrade transitive BCEL to 6.2 to avoid org.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException

Improvements:

• MPIR-352 – Use protocol-agnostic URL for Gravatar
• MPIR-358 – Add GitHub for issue management
• MPIR-366 – Drop Maven 2 support

Tasks:

• MPIR-323 – Align Mojo class names, goals and output names
• MPIR-345 – Upgrade to Doxia 1.8
• MPIR-346 – Upgrade to Doxia Sitetools 1.8.1
• MPIR-347 – Upgrade to Java 6
• MPIR-350 – Upgrade of plexus-interpolation to 1.24.
• MPIR-353 – Upgrade parent to version 30
• MPIR-354 – Upgrade Maven Site Plugin to version 3.5.1 for ITs
• MPIR-355 – Upgrade dependencies which are code- and testsafe
• MPIR-356 – Deprecate not used methods in ProjectInfoReportUtils
• MPIR-367 – Remove Dependency Repository Locations from dependency report
• MPIR-368 – Upgrade to Java 7
• MPIR-369 – Drop Commons Lang for System builtins
• MPIR-372 – Remove fields duplicating parent class members

Dependency upgrades:

• MPIR-361 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MPIR-363 – Upgrade dependencies to latest versions

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven ACR Plugin, Version 3.1.0.

This plugin generates J2EE Application Client file.

Important Note: This is a Maven 3.X only plugin and needs JDK 7 to run.

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

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

Release Notes – Apache Maven ACR Version 3.1.0

Bugs:

• MACR-41 – Upgrade of plexus-interpolation 1.24 to correct escaping issue.
• MACR-44 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0

Improvement:

• MACR-30 – Add LifecycleMapping and ArtifactHandler from maven-core to target packaging plugin

Dependency upgrades:

• MACR-28 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3
• MACR-29 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.3 to 3.1
• MACR-31 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.1 to 3.1.1 / maven-archiver from 3.0.0 to 3.0.2
• MACR-32 – Dependency updates.
• MACR-33 – Upgrade to maven-plugins version 30
• MACR-34 – Upgrade of ‘plexus-archiver’ to version 3.3.
• MACR-35 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.1.0
• MACR-36 – Upgrade maven-filtering to 3.1.1
• MACR-37 – Upgrade plexus-interpolation to 1.22
• MACR-38 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.1.0
• MACR-39 – Upgrade of plexus-archiver to 3.4.
• MACR-40 – Upgrade of maven-archiver to 3.1.1.
• MACR-42 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MACR-43 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0 / maven-archiver / plexus-achiver
• MACR-45 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0
• MACR-46 – Upgrade plexus-interpolation to 1.25

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.22.0.

The release contains 33 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>2.22.0</version>
</plugin>

or for failsafe:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.0</version>
</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Surefire – Version 2.22.0

Bugs:

• SUREFIRE-1383 – dependenciesToScan Does Not Leverage Classpath Elements
• SUREFIRE-1479 – SurefireBooterForkException: The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye since 2.20.1
• SUREFIRE-1498 – Surefire prints own logs “Couldn’t load group class” to native stream.
• SUREFIRE-1503 – Forked JVM immediately crashed on Unix/Linux due to new shutdown mechanism does not turn to the old shutdown mechanism
• SUREFIRE-1506 – Sporadic NullPointerException in ConsoleOutputFileReporter#close()
• SUREFIRE-1512 – ProcessInfo for Windows is prone to timezone offset changes
• SUREFIRE-1515 – Standard output write fails for empty array
• SUREFIRE-1522 – IndexOutOfBoundsException for System.out.write

New Features:

• SUREFIRE-1330 – JUnit 5 surefire-provider code donation
• SUREFIRE-1495 – Encoding of TXT report file should be configured by ${project.reporting.outputEncoding} and MOJO parameter encoding

Improvement:

• SUREFIRE-1490 – Change header of the Failsafe Report

Tasks:

• SUREFIRE-1487 – ParallelComputerBuilderTest fails on overloaded system because internal delay are shorter than blocking time of JVM
• SUREFIRE-1504 – switch from Git-WIP to Gitbox
• SUREFIRE-1510 – Jenkins CI fails due to performance of Windows break concurrency of forked JVMs
• SUREFIRE-1518 – Upgrade version of plexus-java to 0.9.8

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Enforcer Plugin, version 3.0.0-M2.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M2</version>
</plugin>

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

https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/download.cgi

Release Notes – Maven Enforcer Plugin Version 3.0.0-M2 (including 3.0.0-M1)

Bugs:

• MENFORCER-234 – Link to plugin’s web site is reported as redirected by maven linkcheck plugin.
• MENFORCER-239 – Fix link in navigation (enforcer/maven-enforcer-plugin/index.html) RESOURCES
• MENFORCER-240 – Link to page does not work
• MENFORCER-265 – Get site generation working
• MENFORCER-268 – Usage of CI friendly version placeholders does not work
• MENFORCER-274 – Use of RequireJavaVersion with Java-9 breaking starting at b175
• MENFORCER-281 – RequirePluginVersions broken with “CI Friendly versions”

New Features:

• MENFORCER-204 – Add new rule: should be able to make sure that project artifact is a Snapshot
• MENFORCER-247 – Add a “require file checksum” rule
• MENFORCER-273 – RequireUpperBoundDeps.excludes
• MENFORCER-282 – Add RequireProfileIdsExist to ensure al mentioned cmdline profiles exist

Improvements:

• MENFORCER-228 – DependencyConvergence: Simplify logging errors
• MENFORCER-253 – Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 30
• MENFORCER-259 – The rule BanDuplicatePomDependencyVersions is not documented
• MENFORCER-263 – Upgrade mrm-maven-plugin to 1.0.0
• MENFORCER-266 – Remove usage of prerequisites in parent pom
• MENFORCER-291 – Cleanup ReactorModuleConvergence implementation
• MENFORCER-292 – Remove getModelsRecursively from EnforcerRuleUtils
• MENFORCER-293 – Remove deprecated marked ignoreParent from BanDistributionManagement

Tasks:

• MENFORCER-221 – Removed deprecated marked constructor from EnforcerExpressionEvaluator
• MENFORCER-272 – Allow site generation to work
• MENFORCER-284 – switch to Git
• MENFORCER-296 – Update URL for CI System

Dependency upgrades:

• MENFORCER-278 – Upgrade mockito to 2.X to prevent JDK 9 WARNINGs
• MENFORCER-289 – Upgrade maven-plugin-plugin to 3.5
• MENFORCER-290 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
• MENFORCER-297 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MENFORCER-303 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.

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

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

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

Important Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

Release Notes – Maven WAR Plugin – Version 3.2.2

Bug:

• MWAR-303 – filtering of ${project.developers[0].id} does not work

Dependency upgrade:

• MWAR-417 – Upgrade to plexus-interpolation to version 1.25

Many thanks to all reporters/contributors/testers of this release.

Voters:

• Gabriel Belingueres

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

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 3.0.0

• 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>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Help Plugin – Version 3.1.0

New Feature:

• MPH-144 – Add ability to print mvn help:evaluate output to stdout in quiet mode

Improvement:

• MPH-151 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Tasks:

• MPH-145 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MPH-146 – JavaDoc Issues / Code cleanups

Dependency upgrades:

• MPH-147 – plexus-interactivity-api to 1.0-alpha-6
• MPH-148 – Upgrade xstream to 1.4.10
• MPH-149 – Upgrade jdom-legacy to jdom2 2.0.6

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.10.0

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:

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

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>3.10.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven PMD Plugin – Version 3.9

Bugs:

• [MPMD-253] – PMD links to java Xref fail in aggregated report
• [MPMD-257] – Allow to disable analysisCache completely, avoid warnings
• [MPMD-258] – PMD output multiplies with every module in multi module projects
• [MPMD-259] – FileNotFoundException with analysisCache=true, includeTests=true and no test classes

New Feature:

• [MPMD-256] – Add maxAllowedViolations property for PMD

Improvements:

• [MPMD-261] – Upgrade to PMD 6.4.0
• [MPMD-263] – Add documentation information for GitHub
• [MPMD-264] – Add rule priority to HTML report

Dependency upgrades:

• [MPMD-252] – Upgrade parent to 31
• [MPMD-262] – Upgrade maven-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

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

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>3.1.0</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 3.1.0

Bugs:

• MINVOKER-191 – “Artifact is not fully assembled” error with maven-invoker-plugin in parallel/multi thread build
• MINVOKER-224 – Unable to set cloneProjectsTo to null

New Feature:

• MINVOKER-233 – Call an invoker with a given timeout

Improvement:

• MINVOKER-236 – improve display of setup jobs

Tasks:

• MINVOKER-228 – Improve documentation: “Using with other integration test frameworks” page
• MINVOKER-237 – Upgrade to JDK 7 minimum.

Dependency upgrades:

• MINVOKER-232 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MINVOKER-234 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.1
• MINVOKER-235 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
• MINVOKER-238 – Upgrade maven-invoker to 3.0.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

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>3.0.1</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 3.0.1

Bugs:

• MJAVADOC-427 – “Error fetching URL” for valid non-Java API links
• MJAVADOC-504 – NullPointerException in JavadocUtil.getJavaHome() when JAVA_HOME isn’t set
• MJAVADOC-512 – Even when 1.8.0 matches there still is a warning.
• MJAVADOC-517 – NPE under Java 10 RC

Improvements:

• MJAVADOC-487 – Follow redirects
• MJAVADOC-508 – Option to fail in case of javadoc warning

Dependency upgrades:

• MJAVADOC-515 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MJAVADOC-520 – Upgrade plexus-utils/qdox/plexus-archiver/
• MJAVADOC-521 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Plugin Tools, version 3.5.2.

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>3.5.2</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Plugin Tools – Version 3.5.2

Dependency upgrades:

• MPLUGIN-333 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MPLUGIN-334 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MPLUGIN-335 – Support JDK 10 for plugin generation: upgrade asm
• MPLUGIN-338 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

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>3.1.1</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 3.1.1

Bug:

• MDEP-607 – maven-dependency-plugin:3.1.0:analyze failed.: NullPointerException

Dependency upgrades:

• MDEP-611 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0
• MDEP-612 – Upgrade maven-dependency-analyzer to 1.10
• MDEP-614 – Upgrade file-management to 3.0.0

Many thanks to all reporters/contributors/testers of this release.

Reporters:

• MDEP-607: Filipe Sousa

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Important Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

Release Notes – Maven WAR Plugin – Version 3.1.0

Improvement:

• MWAR-412 – Upgrade parent to 31

Task:

• MWAR-401 – Upgrade the WAR lifecycle to use the maven-compiler-plugin 3.7.0

Dependency upgrades:

• MWAR-413 – Upgrade xstream to 1.4.10
• MWAR-414 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MWAR-416 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

This plugin generates Java EE Enterprise Archive (EAR) file. It can also generate the deployment descriptor file (e.g. application.xml).

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven EAR Plugin – Version 3.0.1

Improvements:

• MEAR-265 – Add documentation information for GitHub
• MEAR-266 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0

Dependency upgrade:

• MEAR-268 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.6.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team