Dear Maven Users,

based on the End of Life of Maven 2.2.1 (a year ago) now the time has come to make the final releases of Apache Maven Plugins which support Maven 2.X.

If you continue to use Maven 2.2.1 or earlier you have to be aware of using an completely unsupported Maven version as well as unsupported Maven …

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.15.

Generates a report on violations of code style and optionally fails the build if violations are detected.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId> …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin, version 2.10.2.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.10.2</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven DOAP Plugin, version 1.2.

The DOAP Plugin is used to generate a compliant Description of a Project (DOAP) file from a POM. The main goal is to be able to provide DOAP files for Semantic Web systems that use them as primary input but that would …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Archetype, version 2.3.

In short, Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit.

Using the new release:

1mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:generate

Release Notes Apache Maven Archetype Version 2.3:

Bugs:

• ARCHETYPE-345 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Jar Plugin, version 2.6.

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.6 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Patch Plugin, version 1.2.

The Patch Plugin is used to apply patches to source files.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-patch-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>1.2 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Stage Plugin, version 1.0.

This plugin is used to create bundles of artifacts that can be uploaded to the central repository.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-stage-plugin …

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the Cobertura Maven Plugin Version 2.7.

This plugin provides the features of Cobertura within the Maven 2 & 3 environment.

To get this update, simply specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo …

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.14.

Animal Sniffer provides tools to assist verifying that classes compiled with a newer JDK/API are compatible with an older JDK/API.

The following tools are provided by animal sniffer:

• A command line tool to dump the class file version …