Apache Maven Shared Component - Maven Archiver Version 2.6 Released

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

The Maven Archiver is mainly used by plugins to handle packaging.

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

1<dependency>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-archiver</artifactId>
4  <version>2.6</version>
5</dependency>

Release Notes - Maven Archiver - Version 2.6

Bugs:

• MSHARED-241 - Use last plexus-archiver version
• MSHARED-360 - Upgrade plexus-archiver to 2.6.1 (was 2.6) and plexus-utils to 3.0.18 for java7+ symlink support
• MSHARED-368 - Update plexus-interpolation to 1.21 to avoid potential thread safety issues

Improvements:

• MSHARED-224 - Add documentation on the useUniqueVersions to the index page
• MSHARED-270 - Add Implementation-URL to DefaultImplementationEntries
• MSHARED-273 - Update documentation for the "Created-By" manifest entry
• MSHARED-363 - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7

Tasks:

• MSHARED-373 - Upgrade Maven baseline to 2.2.1
• MSHARED-374 - Upgrade Plexus Archiver to 2.8.1
• MSHARED-375 - Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.0.20
• MSHARED-376 - Upgrade Maven Shared Utils to 0.7

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team