Apache Maven ChangeLog Plugin 2.3 Released

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

The Maven Changelog Plugin generates reports regarding the recent changes in your Software Configuration Management or SCM. These reports include the changelog report, developer activity report and the file activity report.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-changelog-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.3</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Changelog Plugin - Version 2.3

Bugs:

• MCHANGELOG-68 - testReadFile unit test timebased comparisons fail
• MCHANGELOG-108 - read/write changelog.xml inconsistency
• MCHANGELOG-129 - use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations
• MCHANGELOG-130 - NullPointerException when no SCM is defined
• MCHANGELOG-133 - ChangeLog: allow encoding of file paths for gitblit
• MCHANGELOG-134 - ChangeLog: added include/exclude support to filter uninteresting files

Improvements:

• MCHANGELOG-110 - use ${project.reporting.outputEncoding} as default value for "outputEncoding" parameter and default to UTF-8
• MCHANGELOG-114 - add standard skip configuration option
• MCHANGELOG-123 - Patch with support for SCM provider implementations (similar to release plugin)
• MCHANGELOG-126 - Upgrade to Maven SCM 1.8
• MCHANGELOG-131 - Resource bundle for Spanish Argentina

New Feature:

• MCHANGELOG-122 - Add pt_BR localization

Task

• MCHANGELOG-100 - Bump to Doxia 1.1.4

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team