+1
On 22 Nov 07, at 10:07 AM 22 Nov 07, Brian E. Fox wrote:
It's that time again, finally. The RC's have been floating for a few
weeks now and no new issues have surfaced. (the packaging issues with
the uber jar have been resolved since the last vote)
The release is staged at:
http://people.apache.org/~brianf/staging-repository
The binary packages are here: http://people.apache.org/~brianf/2.0.8/
Release Notes - Maven 2 - Version 2.0.8
** Bug
* [MNG-2025] - POM is still not read using the right encoding
* [MNG-2045] - Maven can't compile against sibling test-jar
dependency in multiproject (Test Attached)
* [MNG-2061] - DistributionManagement properties don't get copied
in
cloned executionProject while lifecycle fork
* [MNG-2254] - the encoding parameter in xml declaration of POM is
ignored
* [MNG-2277] - aggregating plugins in submodules of the reactor
return all projects causing a chicken/egg issue
* [MNG-2593] - Maven 2 stumbels upon non ASCII characters in the
value of a <localRepository> value in the $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
* [MNG-2685] - mvn.bat detection of 4NT syntax error
* [MNG-2932] - Encoding chaos
* [MNG-2961] - DefaultArtifact getBaseVersion is changed to
"xxxx-SNAPSHOT" only if you first call isSnapshot()
* [MNG-3046] - DefaultArtifactVersion compareTo misbehaves
regarding
buildNumber 0
* [MNG-3077] - NullPointerException, if MojoExecutionException has
no message
* [MNG-3084] - mvn.bat in maven 2.0.7 does not return the correct
error code.
* [MNG-3095] - maven-plugin-testing-tools causes bad version in
deployed artifacts after tests are run
* [MNG-3134] -
DefaultModelInheritence::assembleDistributionInheritence should be
childPathAdjustment aware
* [MNG-3141] - Build not working if pom.xml is a symbolic link
* [MNG-3215] - Missing rar artifact handler descriptor
* [MNG-3240] - maven-model RepositoryBase.equals() causes
ClassCastException
* [MNG-3245] - Maven Reporting API is binary incompatible in
2.0.8-SNAPSHOT by r579987
* [MNG-3254] - artifactId is not appended any more in
distributionManagement.site.url in multi modules when it's not defined
in a child
** Improvement
* [MNG-2188] - Report mojos should check canGenerateReport() when
called directly
* [MNG-2290] - Generated URLs in POMs of child modules
* [MNG-3024] - Missing artifact error text improvement
* [MNG-3047] - DefaultArtifactVersion compareTo inconsistent with
equals
* [MNG-3062] - Allow access to mojoExecution from within plugin.
* [MNG-3118] - Test-classes should come before classes in the
classpath
* [MNG-3152] - Change to plugin testing harness to allow the
setting
of ArtifactRepository on the ArtifactStub
* [MNG-3201] - org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject needs a
toString()
** New Feature
* [MNG-2105] - Enable remote debugging command line option (+ docs)
* [MNG-2166] - Provide the help listing as default when no
arguments
are provided
** Task
* [MNG-3088] - update the assembly name
** Wish
* [MNG-3207] - Order of repositories for download should be
inverted
if Archiva is used.
Vote is open for 72hrs
+1
Thanks,
Jason
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Jason van Zyl
Founder, Apache Maven
jason at sonatype dot com
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