The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Javadoc Plugin, version 2.8
This plugin uses the Javadoc tool to generate javadocs for your project. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.8</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Javadoc Plugin - Version 2.7 ** Bug * [MJAVADOC-171] - Modules in multi-module projects are "built" too often * [MJAVADOC-275] - Creation of Javadoc attachments fails in multi-module project where modules have never been installed/deployed * [MJAVADOC-284] - detectOfflineLinks sets off extra spurious executions of javadoc * [MJAVADOC-286] - Version 2.7 in Maven Reactor may cause infinite recursion, symptoms similar to MJAVADOC-268 * [MJAVADOC-292] - javadoc:jar FATAL ERROR Host name may not be null * [MJAVADOC-295] - javadoc plugin version: 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 does not follow the reactor build sequence "mvn install site site:deploy" * [MJAVADOC-300] - URL changed after Oracle's acquisition of Sun * [MJAVADOC-301] - DEFAULT_JAVA_API_LINKS values wrong * [MJAVADOC-302] - Classpath cleared after maven-javadoc-plugin:javadoc * [MJAVADOC-304] - failOnError is ignored if javadoc:javadoc is called via Site Plugin 3.0-beta * [MJAVADOC-316] - Grammar error: "has not be previously called" ** Improvement * [MJAVADOC-283] - isValidJavadocLink should be more strict * [MJAVADOC-315] - avoid download package-list from JDK on each run: use local copy * [MJAVADOC-317] - check javadoc links only for automatic dependencies urls ** New Feature * [MJAVADOC-294] - javadoc:fix add first sentence ends proper punctuation Enjoy, -The Maven team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org