[ANN] Maven EAR Plugin 2.5 Released

2011-01-29 Thread Stephane Nicoll 
The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven EAR
Plugin, version 2.5

This new release brings additional compatibility with Java EE 6,
automatic id generation for modules and a few bug fixes.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ear-plugin/

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

plugin
  groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId
  artifactIdmaven-ear-plugin/artifactId
  version2.5/version
/plugin

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Ear Plugin - Version 2.5

** Bug
* [MEAR-116] - different build results from single module build
and from reactor build
* [MEAR-130] - maven build hangs when earSourceDirectory is set to /
* [MEAR-131] - Default value for earSourceDirectory param missing
* [MEAR-134] - no library-directory in application.xml if version is 6

** Improvement
* [MEAR-35] - Generate id for modules in application.xml
* [MEAR-98] - Add an implementation of FileNameMapping that allows
to remove version of artefact in the ear.
* [MEAR-128] - Support for application-name and
initialize-in-order (Java EE 6)
* [MEAR-132] - State default value for generateApplicationXml

** Task
* [MEAR-135] - Rationalize the management of the JavaEE version in
a dedicated class


Enjoy,

-The Maven team

[ANN] Maven Changes Plugin 2.4 Released

2011-01-29 Thread Dennis Lundberg 
The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Changes
Plugin, version 2.4

This plugin is used to inform your users of the changes that have
occured between different releases of your project. The plugin can
extract these changes, either from a changes.xml file or from the JIRA
issue management system, and present them as a report. You also have the
option of creating a release announcement and even sending this via
email to your users.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/

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

plugin
  groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId
  artifactIdmaven-changes-plugin/artifactId
  version2.4/version
/plugin


Release Notes - Maven 2.x Changes Plugin - Version 2.4

** Bug
* [MCHANGES-121] - Incorrect Component value in report for
multi-component JIRA issue
* [MCHANGES-141] - Jira Report fails to pick up issues that contain
multiple fix-for elements.
* [MCHANGES-167] - Jira Password is not URL Encoded - Jira
Authentication Fails when Jira Password contains not allowed in URL
characters
* [MCHANGES-190] - HTML in changes.xml stopped working
* [MCHANGES-206] - announcement-generate doesn't use configuration
of webUser, webPassword and filter for downloading the jira-issues
* [MCHANGES-217] - wrong sorting order in jira report
* [MCHANGES-218] - Downloading from JIRA fails if
issueManagement.url has trailing slash
* [MCHANGES-219] - Not specifying a date for a release causes null
to be displayed in changes report
* [MCHANGES-222] - The download URL for JIRA is wrong if the
issueManagement.url points to a component

** Improvement
* [MCHANGES-60] - The jira report should handle the nonProxyHosts
specified in settings.xml
* [MCHANGES-67] - The changes plugin should not hard code the
team-list.html file
* [MCHANGES-144] - Add configuration if the encoding of JIRA xml
file is not UTF-8
* [MCHANGES-203] - Use the POMs issueManagement.system when
selecting the system to use
* [MCHANGES-207] - Jira-Report: Allow specification of a version-prefix
* [MCHANGES-211] - Restructure the announcement goal to make it
easier to add other issue management systems
* [MCHANGES-214] - Refactor JiraMojo and TracMojo to use the same
ReportGenerator
* [MCHANGES-215] - Make it possible to add the columns Created, Id
and Updated to a JIRA Report
* [MCHANGES-220] - Add support for links to more issue management
systems in the Changes report
* [MCHANGES-221] - Deprecate the values used in the columnNames
parameter for the Trac Report
* [MCHANGES-224] - Mark plugins as @threadSafe

** New Feature
* [MCHANGES-140] - Create a changes check mojo
* [MCHANGES-160] - Support creating a plain text version of the report
* [MCHANGES-197] - Add parameter for output encoding
* [MCHANGES-223] - Add support for Trac in the announcement goal


Enjoy,

-The Maven team

-- 
Dennis Lundberg