Hi,
i have updated the JIRA with appropriate issues which have been missing
etc. Added missing reporters/contributors to the suggestion of the
announcment main:
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Maven 3.3.8.
http://maven.apache.org/
You can download the [appropriate sources etc. from the download
page](http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi).
Release Notes - Apache Maven Version 3.3.8
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316922&version=12333074
Bugs:
* [MNG-5297] - Mark <prerequisites> as deprecated for compile-time
enforcement. (Contributor: Joseph Walton)
* [MNG-5649] - Use Commons Lang's Validate to intercept invalid input
* [MNG-5681] - Properties on command line with leading or trailing
quotes are stripped
* [MNG-5721] - Possible NullPointerException in
org.apache.maven.repository.MetadataResolutionResult
(reporter/contributor Martin Schäf ).
* [MNG-5786] - Variable maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory may be set
incorrectly (reporter Stephan Schroevers).
* [MNG-5787] - Moving from Maven 3.0.5 to 3.3.3 breaks plugins with
some dependencies on the class path (reporter Christian Schlichtherle).
* [MNG-5796] - mvn fails when the current directory is a root drive on
Windows (reporter Brandon Enochs).
* [MNG-5812] - Project base dir not fully working in Cygwin
(contributor tssp).
* [MNG-5813] - Make MAVEN_OPTS env variable with mvnDebug correctly
* [MNG-5816] - Empy maven.config cause Maven to exit with failure
(contributor tssp)
* [MNG-5840] - <relativePath> is used if the groupId and artifactId
match irrespective of the version
* [MNG-5858] - mvn script fails to locate .mvn in current directory
(contributor Dave Syer).
* [MNG-5877] - maven-aether-provider/maven-compat does not always
generate snapshot versions using Gregorian calendar year (contributor
Joseph Walton; reporter Anders Forsell).
* [MNG-5884] - mvn script doesn't handle directories containing spaces
(contributor Stephen Kitt).
* [MNG-5886] - Broken link of 'Building Maven' in README.md on Github
(reporter Shubham Chaurasia).
* [MNG-5891] - Log file command line option description contains an
extra word (reporter Keith Turner).
* [MNG-5898] - Multi-module build with ear fails to resolve war in
3.3.3 (reporter Jonathan Radon).
* [MNG-5907] -
org.apache.maven.repository.internal.RemoteSnapshotMetadataTest fails to
start at midnight
Improvements:
* [MNG-5780] - upgrade Java minimum version prerequisite from Java 6
to Java 7
* [MNG-5805] - Custom packaging types: configuring
DefaultLifecycleMapping mojo executions (contributor Anton Tanasenko).
* [MNG-5818] - Disallow the programmatic injection of project dependencies
* [MNG-5844] - Close IO Streams in finally or try-with-resource
statement (contributor Tang Xinye)
* [MNG-5871] - make url inheritance algorithm more visible
* [MNG-5888] - Update used modello version from 1.8.1 to 1.8.3
* [MNG-5892] - Removing par lifecycle from default life cycle bindings
* [MNG-5893] - Make used plugin version for maven-resources-plugin in
default-bindings.xml consistent
* [MNG-5894] - Removed binding for maven-ejb3-plugin from default binding
* [MNG-5905] - Maven build does not work with Maven 2.2.1
* [MNG-5906] - Use canonical name for UTC timezone
* [MNG-5911] - Upgrade maven-parent to version 27
* [MNG-5915] - Upgrade Wagon version to 2.10
* [MNG-5921] - Upgraded to pelxus-components 1.6 that uses asm 5.x
* [MNG-5922] - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22 to support combine.id as
configuration attribute for Map merging
* [MNG-5923] - Switch to official Guice 4.0 (reporter/contributor:
Stuart McCulloch)
* [MNG-5924] - Upgrade to Eclipse/Sisu 0.3.2 (reporter/contributor:
Stuart McCulloch).
* [MNG-5925] - Update animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to 1.14.
MANIMALSNIFFER-49 required when building with JDK9
Task:
* [MNG-5887] - update Modello site url
Contributors of this release:
* Martin Schäf
* Stuart McCulloch
* sugartxy
* Robert Stern
* Florencia Tarditti
* tssp
* Dave Syer
* Joseph Walton
* Stephen Kitt
* Anton Tanasenko
* Tang Xinye
Reporters of this release:
* Brandon Enochs
* Martin Schäf
* Stephan Schroevers
* Christian Schlichtherle
* Brandon Enochs
* Anders Forsell
* Shubham Chaurasia
* Keith Turner
* Jonathan Radon
Many thanks to contributors and reporters.
Enjoy,
- The Apache Maven team
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If i have oversight someone/something please replay here so i can add
the missing things...
Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise
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