Apache Maven Ant Plugin Version 2.4 Released

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Ant Plugin, version 2.4.

The Ant Plugin generates build files for Ant 1.6.2 or above from the POM.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-ant-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.4</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Ant Plugin - Version 2.4

Bug:

  • MANT-65 - Invalid check for junit

Improvements:

  • MANT-75 - Removed compatibility with Maven 2.0.X
  • MANT-80 - Update version of plexus-utils to 3.0.18
  • MANT-81 - Upgrade ant dep to 1.9.1
  • MANT-82 - Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
  • MANT-83 - Upgrade JUnit from 3.8.1 to 4.11
  • MANT-84 - Upgrade ant dep to 1.9.4 to be consistent with maven-antrun-plugin

Tasks:

  • MANT-69 - use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations
  • MANT-76 - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
  • MANT-77 - Upgrade ant dep to 1.8.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team