Apache Maven

Apache Maven Release 3.5.4

2018-06-22T18:57:38+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.5.4.

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

You can find out more about Apache Maven at https://maven.apache.org

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Contributors

The Apache Maven value community before code and so firstly the team would like to thank the following contributors, without whom this release would not have been possible:

Code contributors:

https://github.com/eis
Florian Brunner
Łukasz Dywicki
Sylwester Lachiewicz

Issue reporters:

Falko Modler
Jarkko Rantavuori
Łukasz Dywicki
Mike Kelly
Sylwester Lachiewicz

Community testers participating in voting for this release:

Dejan Stojadinovic
Enrico Olivelli
Romain Manni-Bucau

Thank you all for your time and feedback (and apologies if we have missed anyone)

Release Notes – Maven – Version 3.5.4

Bugs:

MNG-6370 – ConcurrencyDependencyGraph#getNumberOfBuilds() does not remove finished projects from unfinished ones
MNG-6372 – On Windows Maven can output spurious ANSI escapes such as [0m [0m
MNG-6382 – JANSI fails frequently with NumberFormatException when building in parallel
MNG-6386 – ${project.baseUri} is not a valid URI (according to RFC 3986)
MNG-6388 – Error Fetching Artifacts: “[B cannot be cast to java.lang.String”
MNG-6403 – Artifact#VERSION_FILE_PATTERN does not escape period between date and time
MNG-6410 – Add groupId to —resume-from suggestion if artifactId is not unique in reactor

Improvements:

MNG-5756 – Java home output in mvn -v is misleading
MNG-5940 – Change the maven-source-plugin jar goal into jar-no-fork in Maven Super POM
MNG-6362 – Add documentation information for GitHub
MNG-6363 – Remove secret thread configuration property from code
MNG-6364 – Enhanced Jenkinsfile to test Core with JDK 9
MNG-6411 – Improve readability of project list returned when —resume-from option value is invalid

Task:

MNG-6377 – switch from Git-WIP to Gitbox

Dependency upgrades:

MNG-6344 – Upgrade Guice to 4.2.0
MNG-6423 – Upgrade to Wagon 3.1.0

Share and Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Surefire Plugin 2.22.0 Released

2018-06-17T10:39:55+00:00

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:

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

or for failsafe:

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

or for surefire-report:

<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

Apache Maven Enforcer Plugin Version 3.0.0-M2

2018-06-17T10:00:00+00:00

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:

<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

Notice: Java 6 and 7 users: SSL Protocol upgrades coming to Central

2018-06-13T07:57:53+00:00

The march of standards continues unabated. Legacy TLS protocols 1.0 and 1.1 have varying weaknesses that could lead to a false sense of security.

In June, in an effort to raise security and comply with modern standards, the insecure TLS 1.0 & 1.1 protocols will no longer be supported for SSL connections to Central. This should only affect users of Java 6 that are also using https to access central, which by our metrics is less than .2% of users.

At the same time, this conversion will allow Central to support HTTP/2 with potential performance gains for modern http clients.

The details about why, when and what you need to do are documented at the link below. As questions come up, we will continue to update this faq.

If there is specific information required for non-maven build systems, please send it along and we will include that as well.

https://central.sonatype.org/articles/2018/May/04/discontinue-support-for-tlsv11-and-below/

The same content has been posted as a blog to make it easier to disseminate here: https://blog.sonatype.com/enhancing-ssl-security-and-http/2-support-for-central

Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.2.2

2018-06-10T10:48:26+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.1.0

2018-06-09T13:49:29+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven Wagon 3.1.0 Released

2018-06-09T10:59:14+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven Wagon 3.1.0.

Apache Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Mavens artifact and repository handling code.

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Wagon – Version 3.1.0

Bugs:

WAGON-452 – RelaxedTrustStrategy does not handle multiple certificates
WAGON-493 – Maven wagon-scm documentation is erroneous
WAGON-495 – Fix checkoutDirectory leak
WAGON-496 – site-deploy using wagon-ssh broke in 2.12 because of the fix for WAGON-465
WAGON-497 – ScmWagon#put() strips parent dirs from the target path if they already exist in SCM
WAGON-498 – ScmWagon should work in binary and shallow mode when possible
WAGON-499 – apache-rat complains about Eclipse .checkstyle files
WAGON-503 – Directory gives out of date error in putDirectory() to a non-empty Subversion repo
WAGON-518 – AbstractHttpClientWagon#putFromStream() reads entire content to memory

New Feature:

WAGON-501 – Add ScmGitExeWagonTest

Improvement:

WAGON-482 – Use sparse files in HugeFileDownloadTest with Java 7

Task:

WAGON-504 – switch from Git-WIP to Gitbox

Dependency upgrades:

WAGON-505 – Upgrade SLF4J to 1.7.25
WAGON-506 – Upgrade Jetty to 9.2.24.v20180105
WAGON-507 – Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.1.0
WAGON-508 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.12
WAGON-509 – Upgrade Commons IO to 2.6
WAGON-510 – Upgrade parent to 31
WAGON-511 – Upgrade Plexus Container Default to 1.7.1
WAGON-512 – Upgrade EasyMock to 3.5.1
WAGON-513 – Upgrade HttpClient to 4.5.5
WAGON-514 – Upgrade HttpCore to 4.4.9
WAGON-515 – Upgrade JSoup to 1.11.2
WAGON-516 – Upgrade Jackrabbit WebDAV to 2.14.4
WAGON-519 – Upgrade to SCM 1.10.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven PMD Plugin Version 3.10.0 Released

2018-06-07T06:17:06+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven Invoker Plugin Version 3.1.0 Released

2018-06-01T19:04:39+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven Shared Maven Invoker Version 3.1.0 Released

2018-06-01T19:03:03+00:00

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

This API is concerned with firing a Maven build in a new JVM. It accomplishes its task by building up a conventional Maven command line from options given in the current request, along with those global options specified in the invoker itself. Once it has the command line, the invoker will execute it, and capture the resulting exit code or any exception thrown to signal a failure to execute. Input/output control can be specified using an InputStream and up to two InvocationOutputHandlers.

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

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-invoker</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Release Notes – Maven Shared Components – Version maven-invoker-3.1.0

Improvement:

MSHARED-702 – Remove hard coded versions for plexus-component-annotations/plexus-component-metadata

Tasks:

MSHARED-625 – Refactored to use ‘maven-shared-utils’ instead of ‘plexus-utils’.
MSHARED-729 – Upgrade to JDK 7 minimum.

Dependency upgrades:

MSHARED-700 – Upgrade parent to 31
MSHARED-728 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin Version 3.0.1 Released

2018-06-01T18:48:34+00:00

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.

<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

Apache Maven SCM Version 1.10.0 Released

2018-05-28T17:01:42+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven SCM, version 1.10.0.

Maven SCM supports Maven 2.x plugins (e.g. maven-release-plugin) and other tools (e.g. Continuum) by providing them with a common API for doing SCM operations. You can look at the list of SCMs for more information on using Maven SCM with your favorite SCM tool.

Release Notes – Maven SCM Version 1.10.0

Bugs:

SCM-763 – Password masking for svnexe does not handle all cases
SCM-797 – gitexe checkIn() fails due to Windows command line length limitation
SCM-814 – Dead links on Maven SCM plugin usage page and Maven SCM Providers Matrix page
SCM-818 – Updating doesn’t work when in detached HEAD
SCM-821 – fix incorrect resolving of branch name from HG outgoing changes && NPE in HgUtils.differentOutgoingBranchFound
SCM-829 – CommandParameter incorrectly removed from parameter list
SCM-836 – scm:bootstrap throws NPE
SCM-846 – userInfo in Git HTTP URLs not escaped according to RFC 3986
SCM-862 – apache-rat complains about Eclipse .checkstyle files
SCM-863 – NPE in GlobalOptions.setCVSRoot(null) with newer cvsclient
SCM-865 – cvsnt: rls: invalid option — d
SCM-866 – Cvs ScmProvider.list() does not return correct entries
SCM-867 – ScmWagon has no way to work with CVS and SVN in binary mode
SCM-868 – gitexe add() does not return added files when invoked in subdir
SCM-869 – gitexe list() implemented incorrectly
SCM-874 – ScmResult output password masking does not handle multiline text
SCM-875 – GitUpdateCommand assumes master branch by default
SCM-878 – AbstractConsumer#parseDate() logs wrong locale in case of a ParseException
SCM-879 – JazzChangeLogCommandTest#testListChangesetConsumerWithTimeOnly() fails with NPE on Java 10
SCM-881 – ScmWagon has no way to work with SVN in binary mode
SCM-882 – ScmWagon has no way to work with GIT in binary mode
SCM-886 – Tests with checkin rely on global git config
SCM-887 – Plexus Utils 3.0.24 makes some tests fail
SCM-888 – Changelog generation fails on Windows with Mercurial SCM

Improvements:

SCM-739 – Release Plugin: Use “git —depth 1” When Checking Out
SCM-748 – Automatically create parent dirs with ‘svn —parents’
SCM-855 – Upgrade to Java 7
SCM-873 – Improve documentation on svn-settings.xml and git-settings.xml
SCM-884 – Upgrade jgit to last version of java 7 release (4.5.0.201609210915-r)
SCM-885 – Extend GitChangeLogCommand by using revision only

Task:

SCM-876 – switch from Git-WIP to Gitbox

Dependency upgrade:

SCM-824 – Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.0.24

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Plugin Tools Version 3.5.2 Released

2018-05-26T16:45:19+00:00

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.

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

<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

Apache Maven Dependency Plugin Version 3.1.1 Released

2018-05-24T13:43:56+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.10 Released

2018-05-17T09:06:33+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Shared Component: Apache Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.10

Analyzes the dependencies of a project for undeclared or unused artifacts.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-analyzer</artifactId>
  <version>1.10</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes

Dependency upgrade:

MSHARED-718 – Upgrade asm to most recent version 6.1.1

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

Apache Maven WAR Plugin Version 3.2.1 Released

2018-05-13T10:14:44+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven EAR Plugin 3.0.1 Released

2018-05-13T10:11:38+00:00

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:

<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

Apache Maven EJB Plugin Version 3.0.1 Released

2018-05-09T19:47:09+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven EJB Plugin Version 3.0.1.

This plugin generates J2EE Enterprise Javabean (EJB) file as well as the associated client jar.

Important Note since 3.0.1:

Maven 3.X only
JDK 7 minimum requirement

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

Release Notes – Apache Maven EJB Plugin – Version 3.0.1

Bug:

MEJB-115 – Wrong default EJB version stated on Usage page

Tasks:

MEJB-116 – Clarify “properties removed” on intro page of site
MEJB-117 – Remove reference to old wiki page on intro page
MEJB-118 – Remove “J2EE” from plugin description and site

Dependency upgrades:

MEJB-119 – Upgrade parent to 31
MEJB-120 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
MEJB-121 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Resources Plugin Version 3.1.0 Released

2018-05-01T10:14:35+00:00

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

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.

Important Note:

Maven 3.X only
JDK 7 minimum requirement

Reporters for this release:

Michel Barret MRESOURCES-247

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-resources-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-resources-plugin/download.cgi

Release Notes – Apache Maven Resources Version 3.1.0

Bug:

MRESOURCES-242 – Fix integration test include-git-ignore

Improvement:

MRESOURCES-247 – Improve WARNING message about encoding.

Tasks:

MRESOURCES-243 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.20.1
MRESOURCES-245 – Upgrade to JDK 7 minimum.

Dependency upgrades:

MRESOURCES-241 – Upgrade parent to 31
MRESOURCES-244 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
MRESOURCES-248 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Site Plugin Version 3.7.1 Released

2018-04-29T08:46:54+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.7.1.

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.7.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Site Plugin – Version 3.7.1

Bugs:

MSITE-806 – Site generation does not work when no report configured nor Doxia document provided
MSITE-809 – Documentation: examples/configuring-reports.html includes invalid XML
MSITE-812 – Missing ‘/’ in log when deploying documentation by site:stage
MSITE-817 – inherit edit value in site.xml
MSITE-818 – site:run fails to find locale when zh_CN is used

Improvements:

MSITE-811 – Upgrade parent to 31
MSITE-819 – improve display of site rendering with locale info

Wish:

MSITE-815 – highlight skin used to render site and documents statistics

Tasks:

MSITE-767 – Revert r1729902 caused by DOXIASITETOOLS-155 and fix ITs as soon as parent POMs and site.xml descriptors have been upgraded
MSITE-821 – add documentation on site plugin dependencies

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Clean Plugin Version 3.1.0 Released

2018-04-14T13:43:18+00:00

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

The Clean Plugin is used when you want to remove files generated at build-time in a project’s directory.

Important Note:

Maven 3.X only
JDK 7 minimum requirement

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Clean Plugin – Version 3.1.0

Bug:

MCLEAN-77 – Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki

Tasks:

MCLEAN-73 – Upgrade of maven-shared-utils to 3.0.1.
MCLEAN-74 – Upgrade of commons-io to 2.5.
MCLEAN-83 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
MCLEAN-84 – Lift JDK minimum to JDK 7

Dependency upgrades:

MCLEAN-75 – Upgrade maven-plugins to version 30
MCLEAN-80 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.0
MCLEAN-81 – Upgrade parent to 31
MCLEAN-85 – Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Jar Plugin Version 3.1.0

2018-04-10T15:47:06+00:00

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

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

Important Note:

Maven 3.X only
JDK 7 minimum requirement

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

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 3.1.0

Bugs:

MJAR-221 – Link to wiki page should be removed now that Codehaus is shut down
MJAR-237 – Navigation link “Creating an Executable JAR File” is wrong.
MJAR-240 – maven-jar-plugin index.html – bad links in left column Examples section
MJAR-245 – Additional attached jar: role of classifier
MJAR-249 – Get Build working on JDK 10

Improvements:

MJAR-235 – Update life cycle bound plugin versions
MJAR-236 – Keep maven-compiler-plugin to 3.5.1 based on JDK9 issues

Dependency upgrades:

MJAR-243 – maven-archiver 3.1.1 to 3.2.0
MJAR-246 – Upgrade parent to 31

Enjoy,

The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 3.1.1

2018-04-06T16:38:13+00:00

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

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:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.1.1

Bugs:

MSHADE-273 – Shading of paths starting with / ignores excludes
MSHADE-275 – Maven Shade Plugin does not work under Java 10

Improvements:

MSHADE-277 – Identify issue related IT failure mini-jar-malformed-dependencies/pom.xml
MSHADE-278 – Print out the jar responsible for exceptions like “Error creating shaded jar: invalid LOC header (bad signature)”
MSHADE-283 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Dependency upgrades:

MSHADE-276 – Upgrade parent to 31
MSHADE-279 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
MSHADE-280 – Upgrade jdom 1.1.3 to jdom2 2.0.6
MSHADE-281 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
MSHADE-282 – Remove not used directories rel-path-test-files

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

Reporters:

MSHADE-273: Eugene Kirpichov
MSHADE-275: Markus Grech
MSHADE-278: Gary Gregory

Testers:

Markus Grech
Rafael Winterhalter

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Dependency Plugin Version 3.1.0 Released

2018-04-06T16:36:22+00:00

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

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:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-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-dependency-plugin/download.cgi

Release Notes – Maven Dependency Plugin – Version 3.1.0

Bugs:

MDEP-559 – Java 9 bytecode cannot be parsed
MDEP-603 – dependency:analyze fails on JDK 9 / JDK 10

Improvement:

MDEP-605 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Dependency upgrades:

MDEP-584 – Upgrade plexus-utils to version 3.1.0
MDEP-585 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.5.
MDEP-599 – Upgrade parent to 31

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

Reporters:

MDEP-559: Ben Alex

Testers:

Mark Raynsford

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.9 Released

2018-03-29T15:21:28+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.9

Analyzes the dependencies of a project for undeclared or unused artifacts.

You should specify the version in your project’s dependency list:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-analyzer</artifactId>
  <version>1.9</version>
</dependency>

Release Notes – Maven Dependency Analzyer Version 1.9

Bug:

MSHARED-710 – JDK 9 / 10 Issue – Unknown constant pool type

Dependency upgrades:

MSHARED-707 – Upgrade parent to 31
MSHARED-708 – Upgrade org.ow2.asm:asm:6.0 to 6.1 JDK 10 issues

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Help Plugin Version 3.0.1 Released

2018-03-28T17:29:11+00:00

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

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

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Help Plugin – Version 3.0.1

Bugs:

MPH-135 – help:effective-pom crashes with NPE in multi module builds with -Doutput set
MPH-139 – Invalid default namespace set for effective settings
MPH-140 – Multiple XML declarations written

Tasks:

MPH-137 – Use JDOM’s PrettyFormatter throughout
MPH-138 – Drop AbstractEffectiveMojo#addMavenNamespace()
MPH-141 – Use non-deprecated field in DateFormatUtils

Dependency upgrade:

MPH-136 – Upgrade JDOM to 1.1.3

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Maven Help Plugin Version 3.0.0 Released

2018-03-18T09:42:47+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.0.0

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

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Help Plugin – Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

MPH-53 – mvn help:describe returns the version that is specified in metadata instead of the one in the parent pom
MPH-87 – help:effective-pom/effective-settings uses platform encoding and garbles non-ASCII characters, emits invalid XML
MPH-97 – [Patch] maven-help-plugin does not build with latest version of maven-plugin-testing-harness
MPH-99 – Evaluate has no output in quiet mode
MPH-105 – Effective pom aggregation is not triggered
MPH-107 – Mojos use inconsistent line endings throughout
MPH-108 – Patch for MPH-72 not fully applied
MPH-110 – Cannot run ITs successfully
MPH-111 – IT ‘effective-pom_properties’ fails if run with -Dinvoker.mergeUserSettings
MPH-114 – Goal fails with “Unable to get the POM for the artifact”
MPH-119 – The “artifact” parameter is not taken into account with Maven 3
MPH-121 – incorrect text in help:describe for cmd
MPH-123 – all-profiles does not show right active status

Improvements:

MPH-106 – add gav parameter to calculate effective pom for any gav, not only reactor
MPH-109 – Use ISO 8601 date format for the remaining goals
MPH-116 – Printout the information if a goal is a report goal or not
MPH-120 – Migrate plugin to Maven 3.0
MPH-124 – Show parameter aliases in describe goal

Tasks:

MPH-103 – Remove unused dependency maven-monitor
MPH-112 – Upgrade to Commons Lang3
MPH-126 – Require Java 7
MPH-132 – Drop parameter ‘medium’
MPH-133 – Drop deprecated alias ‘full’
MPH-134 – Drop deprecated alias ‘mojo’

Dependency upgrades:

MPH-102 – Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27
MPH-104 – Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
MPH-117 – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22
MPH-118 – Upgrade maven-plugins to version 30
MPH-125 – Upgrade parent to 31
MPH-127 – Upgrade Maven Artifact Transfer to 0.9.1
MPH-128 – Upgrade Maven Reporting Exec to 1.4
MPH-129 – Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.1.0
MPH-130 – Upgrade XStream to 1.4.7
MPH-131 – Ugprade Commons Lang to 3.7

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven EAR Plugin 3.0.0 Released

2018-03-12T21:14:03+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven EAR Plugin, version 3.0.0

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:

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

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

Release Notes – Maven EAR Plugin – Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

MEAR-171 – Full customization of FileNameMapping is needed
MEAR-217 – Snapshot dependencies are not deleted from skinny WARs
MEAR-243 – Skinny WARs – JAR not removed from WAR if scope in EAR is set to provided
MEAR-244 – Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki
MEAR-246 – Upgrade the EAR lifecycle to use the maven-resources-plugin 3.0.2.
MEAR-250 – IT skinny-wars-javaee5 fails while running with JDK 9

New Features:

MEAR-247 – resource-ref in generated application.xml
MEAR-248 – Support lookup-name in env-entry section

Improvements:

MEAR-198 – Add LifecycleMapping and ArtifactHandler from maven-core to target packaging plugin
MEAR-223 – Link to wiki on documentation page is pointing to shutdown codehaus
MEAR-226 – bundleFileName functionality for the acr plugin
MEAR-228 – Remove manifestFile parameter
MEAR-229 – Change default value for version parameter
MEAR-232 – Remove param properties that doesn’t make sense for CLI usage
MEAR-234 – Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 30
MEAR-241 – Change package to o.a.m.plugins
MEAR-242 – Update lifecycle mapping plugin version
MEAR-254 – Support JavaEE version 8
MEAR-258 – Upgrade site skin to 1.7
MEAR-260 – Remove finalName as a parameter
MEAR-261 – In cases where fileNameMapping is used fail the build
MEAR-262 – Missing since for outputFileNameMapping parameter
MEAR-263 – Wrong docs in examples/customize-file-name-mapping.html

Tasks:

MEAR-207 – Remove the JavaModule/Ejb3Module which are marked deprecated
MEAR-208 – Upgrade to Maven 3.0 compatiblity + JDK 6
MEAR-209 – Change and use a internal unique id instead of artifactId only
MEAR-259 – Fix formatting date issues in apt files

Dependency upgrades:

MEAR-224 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 2.10.3 to 3.0.1
MEAR-233 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.3 to 3.1.1
MEAR-235 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.1.0
MEAR-236 – Upgrade maven-filtering to 3.1.1
MEAR-237 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.3
MEAR-238 – Upgrade of plexus-archiver to 3.4.
MEAR-240 – Upgrade of maven-archiver to 3.1.1.
MEAR-245 – Upgrade of plexus-interpolation to 1.24.
MEAR-251 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.2.0
MEAR-252 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.5.
MEAR-253 – Upgrade plexus-utils to version 3.1.0
MEAR-255 – Upgrade parent to 31
MEAR-256 – Upgrade maven-verifier component
MEAR-257 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.12

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Apache Maven Version 3.5.3 Released

2018-03-08T16:30:40+00:00

Release Notes – Maven 3.5.3

The Apache Maven team would like to announce the release of Maven 3.5.3

Maven 3.5.3 is available for download.

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central place.

The core release is independent of the plugins available. Further releases of plugins will be made separately. See the PluginList for more information.

We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult:

the web site: https://maven.apache.org/
the maven-user mailing list: https://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html
the reference documentation: https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.5.3/

Reporters and Contributors of this release

We really value the contributions of these non committers, so this section is focused on those individuals. Descriptions of the issues fixed can be found at the end of these release notes.

Bugs:

MNG-6323 reporter: Ben Caradoc-Davies
MNG-6320 reporter: Eugene Pliskin
MNG-6300 reporter: Andreas Kurth
MNG-6298 reporter: Ryan Heaton
MNG-6296 reporter: Robin Müller
MNG-6282 reporter: Dejan Stojadinović
MNG-6255 reporter: Andrew Kennedy

Improvements:

MNG-6340 reporter: Tony Guan
MNG-6306 reporter: Andy Wilkinson
MNG-5992 reporter: Ryan J. McDonough

Many thanks to all reporters and contributors for their time and support.

Preliminary Testers

Thank you also for your time and feedback.

Known Issues

One new issue was identified during the release testing. This issue affects Windows users. When running Maven with parallel threads, i.e. the -T command line option, Maven may output spurious ANSI escapes such as [0m [0m MNG-6372

Overview about the changes

Issues have been fixed related to colorizations like to clean up the situation while interrupting the build process MNG-6188 and some issues related to Git Bash / Cygwin have been fixed MNG-6282 and the new options -Dstyle.color MNG-6296 has been fixed.
The handling CRLF in jvm.config file has been fixed MNG-6255.
The wrong usage of the CI friendly version was not correctly identified which has been improved MNG-6305.
Wrong encoding of non-ascii filenames has been fixed MNG-6320.
Deadlock in dependency resolution has been fixed MNG-6323.
A regression related to parents relativePath verification has been fixed MNG-6330.

So now some more interesting things about new (small) features:

The log output contains now some progress informations related to the number of modules which looks like this MNG-6302:

[INFO] Building parent 5.0.1-SNAPSHOT                                     [1/9]

The number 1 is the current number which is being built where the 9 in this case is the number of modules which have to be built overall. So we are in module 1 of 9.

Furthermore the information about the packaging type and the groupId/artifactId are now being shown during the build like the following MNG-6308:

[INFO] ------------------< com.soebes.examples.j2ee:parent >-------------------
[INFO] Building parent 5.0.1-SNAPSHOT                                     [1/9]
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO]

And finally we have added the version of the modules or the reactor at the end of the build MNG-6352:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] parent 5.0.1-SNAPSHOT .............................. SUCCESS [  0.238 s]
[INFO] domain ............................................. SUCCESS [  0.014 s]
[INFO] service-client ..................................... SUCCESS [  0.008 s]
[INFO] webgui ............................................. SUCCESS [  0.010 s]
[INFO] service ............................................ SUCCESS [  0.007 s]
[INFO] app ................................................ SUCCESS [  0.005 s]
[INFO] appasm ............................................. SUCCESS [  0.005 s]
[INFO] shade .............................................. SUCCESS [  0.006 s]
[INFO] assembly 5.0.1-SNAPSHOT ............................ SUCCESS [  0.005 s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

This can be helpful if you have a large number of modules to get the information about the version being built. This meant in the past to scroll up to the last module and look there for the version. Now this can simply being seen at the end of build. If you have a multi module build where the number is the same for all modules it will be given only on the first line and the last line. If you have an aggregator build the version will be printed out for each project.

One more thing has been optimized. We have removed the System.gc() call at the end of the build because this can cause costs for example on AWS systems related to the time taken to run Garbage Collection which is not really necessary MNG-6340. This means also the resulting output will change a little bit like this:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 6.111 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-02-25T15:34:10+01:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

So there is no line anymore telling you about memory stuff.

If you have used the deprecated version markers like RELEASE or LATEST this will now produce a WARNING during the build MNG-6342.

The detailed issue list

Bugs:

MNG-6188 - Console color not properly reset when interrupting build process
MNG-6255 - Maven script cannot parse jvm.config with CRLF
MNG-6282 - Console output has no colors in shell (both Git Bash and Cygwin) (regression in Jansi 1.16 / Maven 3.5.1)
MNG-6296 - New option -Dstyle.color is not working
MNG-6298 - 3.5.2: ClassNotFoundException: javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed
MNG-6300 - Multi module release creates empty directories in war file instead of jars
MNG-6305 - Validation of CI friendly version incorrect
MNG-6320 - Apparently wrong encoding of non-ascii java class filename in error messages in the maven log
MNG-6323 - Deadlock in multithreaded dependency resolution
MNG-6330 - (regression) Parents relativePath not verified anymore

New Feature

MNG-6302 - Provide some “progress” hints

Improvements

MNG-5992 - Git passwords are exposed as the Super POM still uses Maven Release Plugin 2.3.2
MNG-6306 - Replace use of Guava in maven-resolver-provider with a lighter weight alternative
MNG-6308 - display packaging & groupId:artifactId when building a module
MNG-6332 - Cleaned up mvn.cmd Script
MNG-6340 - (Performance) To make System.gc() call configurable in target summary code
MNG-6342 - Emit a WARNING about LATEST/RELEASE in parent
MNG-6352 - Printout version information at the end of the build

Task

MNG-6331 - Remove maven-bundle-pugin from build pluginManagement

Dependency upgrade

MNG-6312 - Update Maven Wagon dependency
MNG-6335 - Update test framework Mockito from 1.10 to 2.12
MNG-6353 - Upgrade maven-shared-utils to 3.2.1

The full list of changes can be found in our issue management system.

Complete Release Notes

See complete release notes for all versions

Apache Maven Surefire Plugin Version 2.21.0 Released

2018-03-06T19:06:26+00:00

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.21.0.

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:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.21.0</version>
</plugin>

or for failsafe:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.21.0</version>
</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.21.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Surefire – Version 2.21.0

Bugs:

SUREFIRE-1372 – Rerunning failing tests fails in combination with Description#createSuiteDescription
SUREFIRE-1422 – Forking fails on Linux if /bin/ps isn’t available
SUREFIRE-1424 – javax.transaction.TransactionManager not visible with Java9
SUREFIRE-1439 – NullPointerException on JDK10
SUREFIRE-1443 – surefire report: broken links with inner classes
SUREFIRE-1445 – Properties from configuration POM are not passed to Provider on JDK 9
SUREFIRE-1450 – TestNG Listener aren’t working from Property Tag in POM.xml With JDK9
SUREFIRE-1451 – Surefire Booter compatibility with NetBSD ps(1) output
SUREFIRE-1452 – Support filtering of tests from Base Class (TestNG)
SUREFIRE-1475 – PpidChecker.windows() assumes wmic is on the path

Improvements:

SUREFIRE-1183 – Custom Test Report Titles and Descriptions
SUREFIRE-1262 – Add modulepath support
SUREFIRE-1416 – maven-surefire-parser: add new method isError in ReportTestCase
SUREFIRE-1435 – Improve Thread Dump. Use prefix “surefire-forkedjvm” in daemon Threads in forked JVM
SUREFIRE-1448 – Clarified specifying multiple categories for JUnit
SUREFIRE-1453 – Allow to specify non existant classes as “groups”
SUREFIRE-1454 – Speedup Standard Output if Tests
SUREFIRE-1491 – LocationManager injected in MOJO unables plugin to run in JDK 1.6

Test:

SUREFIRE-1437 – Improve unit tests. Call PID parser on all platforms in SystemUtilsTest.

Wish:

SUREFIRE-1436 – Increase usability in quiet mode

Tasks:

SUREFIRE-1455 – JaCoCo on integration tests
SUREFIRE-1461 – UnicodeTestNamesIT should be able to run multiple times
SUREFIRE-1463 – integration tests should run on the top of JDK 9
SUREFIRE-1471 – Too long Windows path cause CI issues. Renamed surefire-intergation-tests to surefire-its.
SUREFIRE-1472 – Multibranch Pipeline supports JDK 7-10 Maven 3.2-3.5 Linux Windows
SUREFIRE-1481 – Surefire1295AttributeJvmCrashesToTestsIT should be Parameterized test instead of using Theories runner
SUREFIRE-1482 – Obsolete workaround with commons-lang3 in project unit tests
SUREFIRE-1484 – maven-clean-plugin should be used in integration test resource junit-pathWithUmlaut
SUREFIRE-1485 – surefire-shadefire project should not be deployed in Maven Central
SUREFIRE-1486 – maven-failsafe-plugin does not use JUnit adapter for JUnit4 annotations and TestNG providers do not have maven-surefire-plugin config in POM
SUREFIRE-1488 – Native library in Surefire1295AttributeJvmCrashesToTestsIT caused unstable test
SUREFIRE-1489 – Implement different HTTP ports in ITs and zip() in jenkinsfile

Dependency upgrade:

SUREFIRE-1434 – Upgrade PowerMock@Java9 to Version 2.0.0-beta.5

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team