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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  • MEAR-319 - Remove generated MANIFEST from outdated resources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 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

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Common Artifact Filters Version 3.3.2.

A collection of ready-made filters to control inclusion/exclusion of artifacts during dependency resolution.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-common-artifact-filters</artifactId>
4  <version>3.3.2</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes Maven Common Artifact Filters 3.3.2

• Bug

  • MSHARED-1130 - PatternIncludesArtifactFilters raising NPE for patterns w/ wildcards and artifactoid w/ null on any coordinate

• Dependency upgrade

  • MSHARED-1131 - Upgrade Parent to 37 and cleanup

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 Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Shared Component: Apache Maven Dependency Tree Version 3.2.0

A tree-based API for resolution of Maven project dependencies.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-dependency-tree</artifactId>
4  <version>3.2.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes Apache Shared Componet Maven Dependency Tree 3.2.0

• Bug:

  • MSHARED-1016 - Transitive provided dependencies are not removed from collected dependency graph

• Improvements:

  • MSHARED-1070 - Migrate plexus component to JSR-330
  • MSHARED-1071 - Drop maven 3.0 compatibility

• Dependency upgrade:

  • MSHARED-1114 - Bump maven-shared-components from 36 to 37

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.13.0

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

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

1<dependency>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-dependency-analyzer</artifactId>
4  <version>1.13.0</version>
5</dependency>

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

• https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-dependency-analyzer/download.cgi

Release Notes - Maven Shared Components - Version 1.13.0

• Bugs:

  • MSHARED-1037 - method type signature should not add be added to classes
  • MSHARED-1038 - Inner classes are in same compilation unit as container class
  • MSHARED-1039 - Array parsing is incorrect

• Improvements:

  • MSHARED-1035 - Get rid of maven-plugin-testing-tools for IT test
  • MSHARED-1036 - Project classes are analyzed many times

• Task:

  • MSHARED-1119 - Cleanup IT tests

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHARED-916 - Require Maven 3.2.5+ (drop dependency to Maven 2.0.5)
  • MSHARED-1084 - Bump asm from 9.2 to 9.3 - Java 19 support
  • MSHARED-1085 - Upgrade Parent to 37

Enjoy,

-The Apache 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