Hi! The Apache Maven Team is proud to announce the release of 3.1.0
The release notes can be found here: http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.1.0/release-notes.html In particular there are significant changes regarding JSR330 and SLF4J: http://maven.apache.org/maven-jsr330.html http://maven.apache.org/maven-logging.html The release can be downloaded from: http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi The changes in this release are as follows: Bug: [MNG-3131] - Error message is misleading if a missing plugin parameter is of a type like List [MNG-5016] - A mirror's layout setting should default to 'default' since thats' the only layout supported lay in maven 3 [MNG-5206] - plexus container never disposed [MNG-5208] - Parallel (-T option) multi module build fires wrong "project failed event" [MNG-5209] - MavenProject.getTestClasspathElements can return null elements [MNG-5212] - DefaultPluginDescriptorCache does not retain pluginDescriptor dependencies [MNG-5214] - Dependency resolution substitutes g:a:v:jar for j:a:v:something-else when something-else isn't in the reactor [MNG-5233] - ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException from org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata is not anymore binary compatible. [MNG-5258] - localRepository in settings.xml does not handle ~ as home.dir [MNG-5261] - upgrade wagon version to 2.3 to fix issues with redirect [MNG-5270] - README.bootstrap.txt says "Ant 1.6.5 or later" BUT 1.8 or later is needed [MNG-5280] - Inconsistent order of repositories and pluginRepositories from profiles in settings (regression Maven 3) [MNG-5289] - -Dmaven.repo.local not honored [MNG-5312] - MavenProject.getParent intolerably slow when import scope used heavily [MNG-5313] - Unnecessary DefaultModelBuilder.build overload [MNG-5314] - DefaultModelValidator misuses String.matches [MNG-5336] - Descriptor Reference for settings.xml is incorrect [MNG-5387] - Add ability to replace an artifact in mid-build [MNG-5390] - mvn -rf (no argument) results in NPE [MNG-5395] - logger name for plugins should not be DefaultMavenPluginManager [MNG-5396] - logger name for execution events should not be MavenCli [MNG-5398] - scriptSourceDirectory in superpom is not prefixed with ${project.basedir}/ [MNG-5403] - tar.gz release artifacts have wrong permissions on directories [MNG-5418] - Can't activate a profile by checking for the presence of a file in ${myProperty} [MNG-5430] - use wagon 2.4 [MNG-5444] - ModelSource API is not sufficient to resolve project hierachies [MNG-5445] - Missing PathTranslator @Requirement in org.apache.maven.project.interpolation.StringSearchModelInterpolator [MNG-5456] - Maven skips modules and reports success if parallel build encounters java.lang.Error [MNG-5477] - "malformed POM" warning issued when no version in reporting section Improvement: [MNG-4505] - use slf4j to control various logging frameworks [MNG-5181] - New resolution from local repository is very confusing [MNG-5239] - Maven integration developers would like to be able to override the maven logging appender. [MNG-5245] - upgrade default plugins versions [MNG-5338] - Accept a directory with -f/--file [MNG-5350] - improve @threadSafe error message: tell which goal [MNG-5399] - Upgrade version of maven-release-plugin in superpom to 2.3.2 [MNG-5400] - Upgrade version of maven-dependency-plugin in superpom to 2.5 [MNG-5402] - Better build number for git [MNG-5480] - document in POM descriptor reference how urls are interpolated from parent [MNG-5482] - Catch NoClassDefFoundError org/sonatype/aether New Feature: [MNG-519] - Timestamps on messages [MNG-5306] - for IDE embedding have ways of collecting model problems without failing the process [MNG-5343] - Allow the use of JSR330 annotation in Maven extensions and plugins [MNG-5344] - Allow the SLF4J loggers to be @Injected [MNG-5354] - Integrate Eclipse Aether 0.9.0.M2 [MNG-5380] - Cannot preserve whitespace in Maven plugin configuration [MNG-5381] - Restore MavenSession.getRepositoryCache() [MNG-5382] - Add an IT for @Inject used in plugins [MNG-5386] - Dispose of ClassRealms after invocation to prevent out of Permgen errors [MNG-5388] - Restore embedded integration tests [MNG-5391] - Update the default WAR plugin version to avoid version 2.3 [MNG-5393] - Look at Sonar's use of SLF4J and Logback [MNG-5397] - Use SLF4J for logging [MNG-5407] - Change MavenITmng1830ShowVersionTest to account for SHA1 as version Task: [MNG-5279] - add CLI options to documentation [MNG-5365] - Replace Aether's deprecated ConfigurationProperties with ConfigUtils [MNG-5372] - remove classes that were added during Maven 3 alpha and beta but were deprecated before 3.0 final release [MNG-5373] - Document the usage and benefits of JSR330 [MNG-5374] - Fix transfer listener after the JSR330 merge [MNG-5375] - Document use of SLF4J [MNG-5376] - Account for changes between the Apple and Oracle JDKs on OSX [MNG-5453] - Update Maven 3 build to use Eclipse/Sisu Wish: [MNG-5370] - separate artifact-handlers configuration from plugin bindings to default lifecycle [MNG-5461] - rename _maven.repositories tracking file to _remote.repositories Thanks, The Apache Maven Team
