Apache Maven Dependency Plugin Version 2.9 Released

calendar Sep 21, 2014 · 2 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Dependency Plugin, version 2.9.

The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.9</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.9

Bugs:

  • MDEP-424 - Maven Dependency Plugin homepage should link to dependency:list-repositories
  • MDEP-439 - maven-dependency-plugin not compatible with Java 8
  • MDEP-445 - dependency plugin fails with >9 threads
  • MDEP-448 - NullPointerException when classifier sources was chosen

Improvements:

  • MDEP-443 - dependency tree should be the same when using verbose or not
  • MDEP-450 - Add goal display-ancestors which will output the line of heritage for parent poms
  • MDEP-457 - Enhanced documentation for includeArtifactIds and includeGroupIds
  • MDEP-459 - Update maven-dependency-analyzer to 1.5
  • MDEP-460 - Removed dependency plexus-container-default:1.0-alpha-9-stable-1
  • MDEP-461 - Upgrade plexus-archiver to 2.4.4
  • MDEP-462 - Upgrade to Maven Dependency Tree version 2.3
  • MDEP-463 - Fix RAT Report
  • MDEP-464 - Upgrade maven-invoker 2.0.11 to 2.1.1

New Feature:

  • MDEP-427 - Add user property for addParentPoms option

Tasks:

  • MDEP-227 - Bump to Doxia 1.1.1
  • MDEP-452 - Use mock repository manager for ITs
  • MDEP-453 - Change Maven prerequisite to 2.2.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Karl-Heinz Marbaise