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  • MEAR-319 - Remove generated MANIFEST from outdated resources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 Doxia Version 2.0.0-M4, Released

Doxia is a content generation framework which aims to provide its users with powerful techniques for generating static and dynamic content: Doxia can be used in web-based publishing context to generate static sites, in addition to being incorporated into dynamic content generation systems like blogs, wikis and content management systems.

Release Notes - Maven Doxia base - Version 2.0.0-M4

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

Release Notes - Maven Doxia - Version 2.0.0-M4

• Tasks:

  • DOXIA-663 - Remove deprecated XHTML module
  • DOXIA-666 - Remove code duplication Xhtml5Sink
  • DOXIA-670 - Drop dead XdocSink#link(String, String) method
  • DOXIA-673 - Remove compat handling of absent Sink#tableRows() calls

• Sub-tasks:

  • DOXIA-599 - Replace <a /> element's name attribute with id attribute
  • DOXIA-668 - Remove all obsolete attributes in HTML5
  • DOXIA-672 - Parse id attribute only on <a /> elements by default
  • DOXIA-674 - Replace table border handling with new CSS class
  • DOXIA-675 - Replace table alignment attributes with CSS styles

• Bugs:

  • DOXIA-598 - Generated XHTML5 content does not pass W3 HTML5 Validation Service
  • DOXIA-662 - Non unique IDs generated by IndexingSink
  • DOXIA-671 - Double quotes contained in markdown page are removed in HTML output

• Improvements:

  • DOXIA-665 - Add anchors around FML parts
  • DOXIA-667 - Add <summary> and <details> to recognized tag list
  • DOXIA-669 - Improve/rework CachedFileEntityResolver
  • DOXIA-676 - Remove all obsolete elements in HTML5 and add new ones

• Dependency upgrade:

  • DOXIA-664 - Upgrade Flexmark to 0.62.2

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Daemon, version 0.8.2.

Apache Maven Daemon is a daemon infrastructure for Maven with caching capabilities and a native client for a better and faster user experience.

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

Release Notes - Maven Daemon Version 0.8.2

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team