The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M8.

The release contains 18 fixes and enhancements. 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:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.0.0-M8</version>
5</plugin>

or for failsafe:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.0.0-M8</version>
5</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.0.0-M8</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.0.0-M8

• Bugs:

  • SUREFIRE-2032 - When declare the @Disabled annotation at the class level, skip displayed in other test class
  • SUREFIRE-2082 - Huge test sets may open too many files
  • SUREFIRE-2090 - Xref link to source code with specified line number doesn't work. Missing "L" in anchor
  • SUREFIRE-2101 - Phrased test names with missing @DisplayName result in a "null" test name
  • SUREFIRE-2109 - User cannot write temporary file to surefire/ temp directory
  • SUREFIRE-2117 - XML report omits package and outer class name for tests in @Nested inner class if testset reporter is configured to use phrased naming
  • SUREFIRE-2135 - On Unix-like OS and JDK 18+ Surefire kills the forked JVM if PpidChecker is active and argLine is set to -Dfile.encoding=UTF-16

• New Feature

  • SUREFIRE-2139 - Fully support Java 19 byte code

• Improvements:

  • SUREFIRE-1654 - Remove deprecated parameter 'forkMode' and use only 'forkCount'
  • SUREFIRE-1962 - Unit test for ProviderInfo#isApplicable
  • SUREFIRE-2100 - Improve behaviour for surefire-report goal with aggregate parameter
  • SUREFIRE-2133 - Make anchors start before the headings
  • SUREFIRE-2136 - UmlautDirIT: Revert special paths with colon in it to regular ones after test
  • SUREFIRE-2138 - Update JUnit versions used in docs/ITs

• Tasks:

  • SUREFIRE-2122 - Document how to develop on Surefire using IntelliJ
  • SUREFIRE-2126 - Use the latest surefire version 3.0.0-M7 with self testing
  • SUREFIRE-2137 - Run junit jupiter platform ITs with latest 5.8.x and 5.9.x as well

• Dependency upgrade

  • SUREFIRE-2129 - 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 Dependecy Plugin, version 3.5.0.

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:

1<plugin>
2    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
4    <version>3.5.0</version>
5</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 3.5.0

• Improvement

  • MDEP-831 - Remove not used dependencies / Replace parts

• Task

  • MDEP-841 - Explicitly start and end tables with Doxia Sinks in report renderers

• Dependency upgrade

  • MDEP-837 - Upgrade Parent to 38

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.20.0

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>3.20.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.20.0

• Bug

  • MPMD-335 - Aggregate mode doesn't use additional repositories

• Task

  • MPMD-361 - Explicitly start and end tables with Doxia Sinks in report renderers

• Dependency upgrades

  • MPMD-356 - Upgrade to PMD 6.50.0
  • MPMD-357 - Upgrade to PMD 6.51.0
  • MPMD-358 - Upgrade to PMD 6.52.0
  • MPMD-360 - Upgrade to PMD 6.53.0

Enjoy,

• The Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.4.2

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>3.4.2</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Project Info Reports Plugin - Version 3.4.2

• Bug

  • MPIR-425 - Verbatim content should be rendered as plain text

• Tasks

  • MPIR-426 - Remove Apache Buildr from Dependency Information Report
  • MPIR-427 - Explicitly start and end tables with Doxia Sinks in report renderers

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

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:

NOTE:

• Requires JDK8 as minimum
• Requires Maven 3.2.5+ as minimum.

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

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

Release Notes - Maven EAR Plugin - Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MEAR-297 - failure when building javadoc: maven-plugin-tools-javadoc:jar:3.6.0 is missing
  • MEAR-301 - wrong repackaging when defaultLibBundleDir start with dot

• New Features:

  • MEAR-302 - jakarta EE 9 EAR compatibility
  • MEAR-309 - Support JakartaEE 10

• Improvements:

  • MEAR-298 - Improving EAR packaging performance with ZipFileSystem
  • MEAR-319 - Remove generated MANIFEST from outdated resources
  • MEAR-321 - Remove not implemented parameter - useBaseVersion

• Tasks:

  • MEAR-304 - Update dependencies used in IT tests
  • MEAR-311 - Require Java 8
  • MEAR-318 - Require Maven 3.2.5

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MEAR-310 - Upgrade Parent to 37
  • MEAR-312 - Upgrade Maven Verifier to 2.0.0-M1
  • MEAR-313 - Bump maven-filtering from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0
  • MEAR-314 - Bump plexus-archiver from 4.2.4 to 4.5.0
  • MEAR-315 - Bump maven-archiver from 3.5.1 to 3.6.0
  • MEAR-316 - Bump plexus-io from 3.2.0 to 3.4.0
  • MEAR-317 - Bump maven-shared-utils from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4
  • MEAR-320 - Bump plexus-utils from 3.3.0 to 3.4.2

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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