The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JDeps Plugin, version 3.1.0.

The JDeps Plugin uses the jdeps tool to analyze classes for internal API calls. For more information about the standard jdeps tool, please refer to Java+Dependency+Analysis+Tool.

You should specify the version in …

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.16.

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

Release Notes - MojoHaus Animal Sniffer - Version 1.16

You must update your pom

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.1.0.

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies.

You should specify the version in your …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven EJB Plugin Version 3.0.0.

This plugin generates J2EE Enterprise Javabean (EJB) file as well as the associated client jar.

Important Note since 3.0.0:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

1<plugin>
2  <groupId> …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.1.0.

The Assembly Plugin for Maven is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files into a single distributable archive. …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Archiver, version 3.2.0.

The Maven Archiver is mainly used by plugins to handle packaging. The version numbers referenced in the Since column on this page are the version of the Maven Archiver component - not for any specific plugin. To see which …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven Wagon 3.0.0.

Apache Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Maven's artifact and repository handling code.

Release Notes - Maven Wagon - Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

• WAGON-363 - wagon-ftp fails to create non-existing directory when path …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Shared Component: Apache Maven Reporting Impl. Version 3.0.0

Abstract classes to manage report generation, which can be run both:

• as part of a site generation, as a maven-reporting-api's MavenReport,
• or as a direct standalone goal invocation, as a …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Utils, version 3.2.0.

The release contains a number of bug fixes.

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

1<dependency>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
3 …

At the moment JDK 9 is only available as Early Access (EA) to let the community take a look how it works and what can be improved. Apart from all the news for example about the modular system Jigsaw etc. There is one important question:

How can I create a Java Run-Time Image with Maven? But before we begin: What is a …