Apache Maven WAR Plugin Version 2.6 Released

calendar Jan 12, 2015 · 1 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 2.6.

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>2.6</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven WAR Plugin - Version 2.6

Bugs:

  • MWAR-167 - Final manifest not written to exploded location
  • MWAR-309 - 'mvn package' duplicates WEB-INF/classes on linux only
  • MWAR-331 - IOException: Mark invalid -- With version 2.5
  • MWAR-333 - Fix thread safety issues by upgrading plexus-interpolation to 1.21
  • MWAR-341 - Overlay task fails on unpacking when applying file permissions

Improvements:

  • MWAR-329 - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7.1
  • MWAR-330 - Update version plexus-io 2.2
  • MWAR-334 - Upgrade maven-filtering to 1.3
  • MWAR-335 - Upgrade maven-archiver dependency to v2.6
  • MWAR-336 - Upgrade to maven-plugins version 25 to 26
  • MWAR-338 - Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27
  • MWAR-339 - Upgrade plexus-archiver to 2.9

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team