Apache Maven Site Plugin Version 3.5 Released

calendar Feb 18, 2016 · 2 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.5.

The Site Plugin is used to generate a site for the project. The generated site also includes the project's reports that were configured in the POM.

Attention there are breaking changes to know when upgrading.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.5</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Site Plugin - Version 3.5

Sub-task:

  • MSITE-762 - Upgrade Velocity from 1.5 to 1.7

Bugs:

  • MSITE-135 - inherited site.xml files are interpolated with the originating project's model values and not the consumer project's values
  • MSITE-604 - Properties from settings.xml are not recognized in site distribution management
  • MSITE-694 - When maven.site.skip=true, mvn site:jar doesn't skip the generation of the jar
  • MSITE-702 - Overriding skin resources / Duplicate copying of skin resources
  • MSITE-724 - An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.4:jar
  • MSITE-743 - Automatic breadcrumbs generates URLs inconsistent with menus: should point to index.html
  • MSITE-744 - Regression in 3.4: File in generated-site/resources/ ignored unless there is a file in generated-site/markdown/ too
  • MSITE-750 - site plugin doesn't override correctly parent distributionManagement site url with another one defined in child project when dav:
  • MSITE-752 - Cannot use server side includes.
  • MSITE-754 - ConcurrentModificationException when using site:run
  • MSITE-760 - when using templateFile, skin is downloaded and info message "Rendering site with skin"

Improvements:

  • MSITE-696 - site:deploy try to deploy the site of a sub module even if the property maven.site.skip is set to true
  • MSITE-708 - Doc about filtering incorrect about macros rules
  • MSITE-723 - "About" report generated even though index.apt is available in "generated-site"
  • MSITE-727 - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
  • MSITE-729 - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.9
  • MSITE-740 - Allow multiple extensions for given format
  • MSITE-746 - FAQ contains inaccurate description regarding the site life cycle
  • MSITE-755 - Upgrade Doxia Sitetools from 1.6 to 1.7
  • MSITE-765 - upgrade Doxia from 1.6 to 1.7

New Feature:

  • MSITE-756 - add an option to dump Velocity processed Doxia files

Tasks:

  • MSITE-753 - remove deprecated template and templateDirectory parameters
  • MSITE-759 - Update "Configuring the Site Descriptor" page for Doxia (Sitetools) 1.7
  • MSITE-763 - Fix issues reported by dependency:analyze
  • MSITE-766 - Upgrade to Commons Lang 3

Wish:

  • MSITE-326 - Make input source file encoding default to platform encoding

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team