Apache Maven WAR Plugin Version 2.5 Released

calendar Oct 12, 2014 · 1 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 2.5

The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.5</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven WAR Plugin - Version 2.5

Bugs:

  • MWAR-305 - Filtering doesn't work as expected after switching from maven-filtering:1.0-beta-2 to maven-filtering:1.1
  • [MWAR-306] - [regression](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-306] - [regression) Filtering doesn't work if a lone @ is found in a line to interpolate
  • MWAR-311 - Filtering of resources broken in version 2.4
  • MWAR-312 - Document about Skinny War might need update

Improvements:

  • MWAR-313 - Upgrade maven-filtering to 1.2
  • MWAR-316 - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
  • MWAR-317 - Upgrade to Maven 2.2.1 compatiblity
  • MWAR-319 - Fix RAT Report
  • MWAR-320 - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.6.1
  • MWAR-321 - Upgrade plexus archiver to 2.6.3
  • MWAR-322 - Removed dependency plexus-container-default:1.0-alpha-9-stable-1
  • MWAR-323 - Upgrade xstream version to 1.4.4
  • MWAR-324 - Upgrade plexus-io to 2.1.3
  • MWAR-325 - Fixed CPD / Checkstyle WARNINGS

Task:

  • MWAR-302 - Use the maven-mapping shared component

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

Karl Heinz Marbaise