Hi, A year ago we discussed the minimum Maven version for ASF plugins [1]. Slawomir proposed four options, and his summary on 2025-11-13 lists ten +1s for 3.9.0. The compatibility plan was updated accordingly [2][3]:
"In October 2025, Maven before 3.8.3 has been marked as EOL, meaning that plugins should use 3.9.0 as minimum (as per Mailing List)" Many plugins still declare <prerequisites><maven>3.6.3</maven>, so I would like to clarify what that thread decided. Two questions: 1. Was that thread a formal vote, or a show of hands to be confirmed by a [VOTE]? 2. Should we raise the prerequisite to 3.9.0 across our plugins, or keep the existing 3.6.3 and update the compatibility plan to reflect that? This is only about the outcome of last year's thread. This is only about the outcome of last year's thread. It is not Maven 3.10.0 or about adopting new APIs. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/s2dvm1jg37vhrkkkplfknk494c68zfyv [2] https://github.com/apache/maven-site/pull/1456 [3] https://maven.apache.org/developers/compatibility-plan.html Regards, Sylwester
