The Apache Software Foundation
Blogging in Action.

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

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:

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.3.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MSHADE-252 – shadeSourcesContent is broken when combined with partial relocation
  • MSHADE-396 – Improve SourceContent Shading

• New Feature:

  • MSHADE-36 – Add option to include dependency reduced POM instead of original one

• Improvements:

  • MSHADE-321 – Always respect ‘createDependencyReducedPom’ flag
  • MSHADE-371 – Update Shade Apache[Notice/LICENSE]ResourceTransformer to use also [NOTICE/LICENSE].md
  • MSHADE-373 – Source transformation on source jar can break OSGi resolution due to duplicated bundle name
  • MSHADE-382 – Add an option to skip execution
  • MSHADE-391 – Do not modify class files, if nothing was relocated
  • MSHADE-405 – ShowOverlapping Uses http instead of https

• Tasks:

  • MSHADE-389 – Get rid of old baggage
  • MSHADE-390 – Implement Sisu index transformer
  • MSHADE-401 – Improve ServiceResourceTransformer
  • MSHADE-412 – SimpleRelocator can fail in NPE, in particular with manifest transformer

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHADE-379 – Support Java 16 – upgrade ASM to 9.0
  • MSHADE-386 – Update JDependency to 2.6.0
  • MSHADE-407 – Update ASM to 9.2 to support Java 17

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JXR, version 3.2.0.

This module generates browsable HTML pages from Java source code.

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>3.2.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven JXR – Version 3.2.0

• Bug:

  • JXR-164 – Full path to local code sources in page title

• Task:

  • JXR-162 – Lift Minimum Java to Java 8

• Dependency upgrades:

  • JXR-157 – Upgrade Velocity templating engine
  • JXR-163 – Require Maven 3.2.5+
  • JXR-165 – Upgrade Maven Reporting to 3.1.0
  • JXR-167 – Upgrade Parent to 35
  • JXR-168 – Dependency upgrade and cleanup

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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

The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location.

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</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 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MDEP-679 – mvn dependency:analyze detected wrong transitive dependency
  • MDEP-742 – dependency plugin does not work with JDK 16
  • MDEP-752 – skip dependency analyze in ear packaging
  • MDEP-753 – Non-test dependency reported as Non-test scoped test only dependency
  • MDEP-759 – ‘Dependency not found’ with 3.2.0 and Java-17 while analyzing
  • MDEP-761 – Tree plugin does not terminate with 3.2.0
  • MDEP-769 – Minor improvement – continue
  • MDEP-774 – analyze-only failed: PermittedSubclasses requires ASM9
  • MDEP-781 – Broken Link to “Introduction to Dependency Mechanism Page”
  • MDEP-783 – TreeMojo docs say scope doesn’t work due to MSHARED-4
  • MDEP-786 – Sealed classes not supported

• New Feature:

  • MDEP-787 – Allow ignoring non-test-scoped dependencies

• Improvements:

  • MDEP-763 – Minor improvements
  • MDEP-768 – GitHub Action build improvement
  • MDEP-779 – dependency:analyze should list the classes that cause a used undeclared dependency
  • MDEP-789 – Improve documentation of analyze – Non-test scoped

• Task:

  • MDEP-760 – Java 1.8 as minimum

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MDEP-766 – Upgrade maven-invoker-plugin to version 3.2.2
  • MDEP-784 – Upgrade maven-dependency-analyzer to 1.12.0
  • MDEP-788 – Upgrade maven-reporting-impl to version 3.1.0
  • MDEP-795 – Update Jetty to 9.4.45.v20220203
  • MDEP-796 – Upgrade Maven Parent to 35
  • MDEP-797 – Update transitive dependency commons-beanutils to 1.9.4
  • MDEP-798 – Upgrade maven-dependency-tree from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Compiler Plugin, version 3.10.1.

The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project.

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.10.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Compiler Plugin – Version 3.10.1

• Bugs:

  • MCOMPILER-346 – workaround to jdk bug: assertionError inside javac when using javax.tools API
  • MCOMPILER-485 – Incorrect internal string format in generated package-info.class files on Windows

• New Feature:

  • MCOMPILER-426 – dedicated option for enabling preview feature

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.2.2

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.2</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Project Info Reports Plugin – Version 3.2.2

• Bug:

  • MPIR-413 – Plugin repositories defined in project are not used by plugin-management report

• Dependency upgrade:

  • MPIR-414 – Upgrade Maven Reporting API/Impl to 3.1.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.11.0.

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.11.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Site Plugin – Version 3.11.0

• Task:

  • MSITE-880 – AbstractSiteDeployWebDavTest should not log

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSITE-881 – Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.0
  • MSITE-882 – Upgrade Maven Reporting Exec to 1.6.0
  • MSITE-883 – Upgrade plugins in ITs

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.16.0

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
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.16.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven PMD Plugin – Version 3.16.0

• Bugs:

  • MPMD-325 – Could not find class due to IncompatibleClassChangeError warning
  • MPMD-324 – Ruleset URLs have hyphen replaced with forwardslash
  • MPMD-323 – ResourceManager should use project base dir instead of pom location

• Improvement:

  • MPMD-328 – Shared GitHub Actions

• Tasks:

  • MPMD-327 – Upgrade to PMD 6.42.0
  • MPMD-326 – Set Maven 3.1.1 as minimum version

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Compiler Plugin, version 3.10.0.

The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project.

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.10.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Compiler Plugin – Version 3.10.0

• Bugs:

  • MCOMPILER-205 – incremental compilation broken for package-info classes
  • MCOMPILER-225 – javac.bat and args file added to archive when fork and -X used
  • MCOMPILER-460 – Compiler doesn’t show detailed information with the Maven Toolchains
  • MCOMPILER-470 – -parameters doesn’t work with —release
  • MCOMPILER-474 – Dependent modules are not recompiled if we run the “package” goal
  • MCOMPILER-481 – JPMS Regression: cannot access (requires static module not include anymore)

• Improvement:

  • MCOMPILER-479 – Clarify compilerArgs Javadoc

• Task:

  • MCOMPILER-484 – Remove deprecated mojos

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin, version 3.3.2.

The Javadoc Plugin uses the Javadoc tool to generate javadocs for the specified project.

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.3.2</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 3.3.2

• Bugs:

  • MJAVADOC-693 – NPE if URL is not defined in a dependency
  • MJAVADOC-694 – Empty warning with maven-javadoc-plugin 3.3.1

• Dependency upgrade:

  • MJAVADOC-705 – Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.2.1

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Project Info Reports Plugin – Version 3.2.1

• Bugs:

  • MPIR-403 – Travis link should point to travis-ci.com instead of travis-ci.org
  • MPIR-404 – Warn and accept invalid mailing list links
  • MPIR-405 – Regression in Maven site rendering due to Doxia change to HTML5
  • MPIR-412 – Dependency report generates non-well-formed output if the POM of a depdendency cannot be parsed

• Improvement:

  • MPIR-408 – Add some i18n properties for zh_CH

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MPIR-409 – Upgrade Maven Site Plugin to 3.10.0
  • MPIR-410 – Upgrade Maven SCM to 1.12.2
  • MPIR-411 – Upgrade Doxia to 1.11.1 and Doxia Sitetools to 1.11.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Plugin Tools, version 3.6.4.

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:

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.6.4</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Plugin Tools – Version 3.6.4

• Bugs:

  • MPLUGIN-382 – Too many dependencies in plugin descriptor
  • MPLUGIN-383 – Missing prerequisites in plugin pom
  • MPLUGIN-384 – Nexus Staging Plugin – incompatibility

• Task:

  • MPLUGIN-386 – Filter out maven-archiver and maven-jxr from scope warning

• Dependency upgrade:

  • MPLUGIN-387 – Upgrade dependencies

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.1.1

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Project Info Reports Plugin – Version 3.1.1

• Bugs:

  • MPIR-374 – Unknown packaging: bundle when creating report
  • MPIR-398 – Nonsense links created for mailing lists when mailto is empty

• Improvements:

  • MPIR-393 – MailiingListReport.getArchiveServer is weird
  • MPIR-394 – Link for Jenkins introduction should be updated to jenkins.io

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Archetype Plugin, version 3.2.0.

In short, Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit. An archetype is defined as an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made. The names fits as we are trying to provide a system that provides a consistent means of generating Maven projects. Archetype will help authors create Maven project templates for users, and provides users with the means to generate parameterized versions of those project templates.

https://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/index.html

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-archetype-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Archetype Plugin – Version 3.2.0

• Bug:

  • ARCHETYPE-585 – Missing null check causes NullPointerException

• New Feature:

  • ARCHETYPE-590 – support Reproducible Builds for archetype:jar

• Improvements:

  • ARCHETYPE-583 – Skip parent non-archetype project when updating local catalog
  • ARCHETYPE-586 – make build Reproducible

• Dependency upgrades:

  • ARCHETYPE-594 – Update easymock
  • ARCHETYPE-596 – Update xmlunit

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.3.1.

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:

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.3.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven WAR Plugin – Version 3.3.1

• Bugs:

  • MWAR-436 – Jar file created by archiveClasses option is not reproducible
  • MWAR-435 – Maven WAR Plugin 3.3.0 with minify-maven-plugin does not work correctly anymore
  • MWAR-434 – archiveClasses Jar file is not created in WEB-INF/lib
  • MWAR-433 – Maven WAR plugin is deleting files generated by other plugins after upgrading to 3.3.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.9.1.

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

1
2
3
4
5

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.9.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Site Plugin – Version 3.9.1

• Bugs:

  • MSITE-856 – NullPointer on org.apache.maven.plugins.site.render.SiteMap.relativePath
  • MSITE-863 – NoSuchMethodError: ‘Xpp3Dom.getInputLocation()’ when running reports with Maven versions < 3.6.1

• Improvements:

  • MSITE-845 – Drop Maven 2 support
  • MSITE-862 – log Doxia source when rendering with site:run

• Task:

  • MSITE-757 – drop Maven 2 support

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team