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

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.22.1.

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>2.22.1</version>
</plugin>

or for failsafe:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.1</version>
</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.22.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Surefire – Version 2.22.1

Bugs:

• SUREFIRE-1532 – MIME type for javascript is now officially application/javascript
• SUREFIRE-1535 – Surefire unable to run testng suites in parallel
• SUREFIRE-1538 – Git considers PNG files as changed although there is no change
• SUREFIRE-1550 – The surefire XSD published on maven site lacks of some rerun element
• SUREFIRE-1559 – XML Report elements rerunError, rerunFailure, flakyFailure, flakyError should contain element stackTrace and should not be simpleContent.
• SUREFIRE-1561 – Logs in Parallel Tests are mixed up when forkMode=never or forkCount=0
• SUREFIRE-1564 – Can’t override platform version through project/plugin dependencies
• SUREFIRE-1579 – Forks mixed up characters in standard output

Improvements:

• SUREFIRE-1552 – Nil element “failureMessage” in failsafe-summary.xml should have self closed tag
• SUREFIRE-1554 – Fix old test resources TEST-*.xml in favor of continuing with SUREFIRE-1550
• SUREFIRE-1555 – Elapsed time in XML Report should satisfy pattern in XSD.
• SUREFIRE-1562 – Support Java 11
• SUREFIRE-1565 – Surefire should support parameterized reportsDirectory

Tasks:

• SUREFIRE-1569 – m-invoker-p:3.1.0 attempts to reolve maven-surefire-common:jar:2.22.1-SNAPSHOT from remote repo ‘apache.snapshots’
• SUREFIRE-1578 – Remove obsolete module surefire-setup-integration-tests

Dependency upgrades:

• SUREFIRE-1540 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
• SUREFIRE-1571 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 33

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Deploy Plugin, version 3.0.0-M1.

The deploy plugin is primarily used during the deploy phase, to add your artifact(s) to a remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects. This is usually done in an integration or release environment. It can also be used to deploy a particular artifact (e.g. a third party jar like Sun’s non redistributable reference implementations).

Important Note since 3.0.0-M1:

• Maven 3.X only
• Minimum JDK 7+
• The maven-deploy-plugin will generate the needed checksums during the transfer to your remote repository.

Usage Note:

• Use the maven-deploy-plugin version 3.0.0-M1 only in combintation with the maven-install-plugin version 3.0.0-M1.

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Deploy Plugin Version 3.0.0-M1.

Bugs:

• MDEPLOY-194 – Deploy SSH external: copy and paste failure in POM snippet comment
• MDEPLOY-211 – uniqueVersion broken (if not supported, should be removed from doc, and warning printed)
• MDEPLOY-212 – deploy-file incorrectly deploys attached artifacts
• MDEPLOY-213 – deploy-file replaces main artifact of a project
• MDEPLOY-215 – Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki

New Feature:

• MDEPLOY-178 – Use information provided in pom.xml of JAR

Improvements:

• MDEPLOY-171 – Remove deprecated readonly parameters
• MDEPLOY-187 – Upgrade to Maven 3.0 compatiblity
• MDEPLOY-205 – MavenProject with only attachments must have packaging “pom”
• MDEPLOY-207 – Remove @Deprecated marked code
• MDEPLOY-222 – Issue Tracking in pom.xml points to outdated Codehaus site
• MDEPLOY-231 – Move checksum generation from install to deploy plugin
• MDEPLOY-232 – Using maven-fluido-skin 1.7
• MDEPLOY-233 – Remove unused code
• MDEPLOY-240 – Remove updateReleaseInfo parameter

Tasks:

• MDEPLOY-203 – Rename package to org.apache.maven.plugins
• MDEPLOY-239 – Add GitHub documentation
• MDEPLOY-242 – Lift JDK minimum to JDK 7

Sub-task:

• MDEPLOY-202 – deploy-file goal insists on deploying source file for previous deploy-file execution

Dependency upgrades:

• MDEPLOY-188 – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.18
• MDEPLOY-191 – Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27
• MDEPLOY-192 – Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
• MDEPLOY-208 – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.24
• MDEPLOY-209 – Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 30
• MDEPLOY-210 – Upgrade of commons-io to 2.5.
• MDEPLOY-219 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer to version 0.9.1
• MDEPLOY-228 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
• MDEPLOY-230 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MDEPLOY-235 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MDEPLOY-237 – Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
• MDEPLOY-238 – Upgrade JUnit 4.11 to 4.12

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Install Plugin, version 3.0.0-M1.

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.

Important Note since 3.0.0-M1:

• Maven 3.X only
• Minimum JDK 7+
• The maven-install-plugin does not generate any kind of checksum anymore.

Usage Note:

• Use the maven-install-plugin 3.0.0-M1 only in combination with the maven-deploy-plugin 3.0.0-M1.

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Install Plugin Version 3.0.0-M1

Bugs:

• MINSTALL-121 – The packaging property should not be used for the file extension
• MINSTALL-130 – Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki

Improvements:

• MINSTALL-110 – install-file should also install bundled pom.xml from artifact.
• MINSTALL-114 – Plugin shouldn’t depend on maven-compat dependency
• MINSTALL-118 – MavenProject with only attachments must have packaging “pom”
• MINSTALL-124 – Remove hard code version for maven-invoker-plugin
• MINSTALL-128 – Replace usage of the deprecated ArtifactFactory
• MINSTALL-134 – Remove checksum generation
• MINSTALL-136 – Removed unused dependency
• MINSTALL-143 – Move checksum generation from install to deploy plugin

Tasks:

• MINSTALL-129 – Use released version of maven-artifact-transfer
• MINSTALL-131 – Rename package to org.apache.maven.plugins
• MINSTALL-145 – Remove unused dependencies in pom
• MINSTALL-148 – Document change about createChecksums
• MINSTALL-149 – Remove updateReleaseInfo parameter
• MINSTALL-150 – Lift JDK minimum to JDK 7

Dependency upgrades:

• MINSTALL-109 – Update version of plexus-utils to 3.0.18
• MINSTALL-111 – Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27
• MINSTALL-112 – Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
• MINSTALL-113 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 0.7
• MINSTALL-117 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.0.0
• MINSTALL-122 – Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 30
• MINSTALL-123 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.0.1
• MINSTALL-125 – Upgrade of commons-io to 2.5.
• MINSTALL-127 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.1.0
• MINSTALL-137 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer to version 0.9.1
• MINSTALL-140 – maven-shared-utils 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
• MINSTALL-141 – plexus-utils 3.0.24 to 3.1.0
• MINSTALL-142 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MINSTALL-144 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MINSTALL-146 – Upgrade maven-plugin parent to version 32
• MINSTALL-147 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.12

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

This module generates browsable HTML pages from Java source code.

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

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

NOTE: Special thanks for the contributions retrieved during the hackathon at JCreate.

Release Notes – Maven JXR – Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

• JXR-68 – ignores classes with same name in other packages
• JXR-98 – Nested classes aren’t linked correctly
• JXR-100 – Method declaration: using spaces before or after parenthesis prevents cross references generation
• JXR-126 – File write using platform default encoding
• JXR-135 – Invalid representation of inner class
• JXR-140 – Proper URL handling

Improvements:

• JXR-110 – Use equivalent css/images of javadoc
• JXR-124 – Remove excluded DEPENDENCIES file if new parent is used.
• JXR-125 – Upgrade to Maven 3.0 compatiblity
• JXR-127 – Create anchor for classes generated from a Java source file
• JXR-131 – Reports ‘jxr’ and ‘test-jxr’ do not contain generated sources.
• JXR-132 – Aggregator reports should not require modules to be installed/deployed.

Task:

• JXR-134 – switch to Git

Dependency upgrades:

• JXR-128 – Upgrade maven parent to version 30
• JXR-129 – Upgrade of plexus-utils to 3.0.24.
• JXR-130 – Upgrade of commons-io to 2.5.
• JXR-136 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
• JXR-138 – Upgrade parent to 31

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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