Apache Maven Surefire Plugin Version 2.22.1 Released

calendar Oct 14, 2018 · 2 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.22.1.

The release contains 17 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming!

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.22.1</version>
5</plugin>

or for failsafe:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.22.1</version>
5</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.22.1</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 2.22.1

Bugs:

  • SUREFIRE-1532 - MIME type for javascript is now officially application/javascript
  • SUREFIRE-1535 - Surefire unable to run testng suites in parallel
  • SUREFIRE-1538 - Git considers PNG files as changed although there is no change
  • SUREFIRE-1550 - The surefire XSD published on maven site lacks of some rerun element
  • SUREFIRE-1559 - XML Report elements rerunError, rerunFailure, flakyFailure, flakyError should contain element stackTrace and should not be simpleContent.
  • SUREFIRE-1561 - Logs in Parallel Tests are mixed up when forkMode=never or forkCount=0
  • SUREFIRE-1564 - Can't override platform version through project/plugin dependencies
  • SUREFIRE-1579 - Forks mixed up characters in standard output

Improvements:

  • SUREFIRE-1552 - Nil element "failureMessage" in failsafe-summary.xml should have self closed tag
  • SUREFIRE-1554 - Fix old test resources TEST-*.xml in favor of continuing with SUREFIRE-1550
  • SUREFIRE-1555 - Elapsed time in XML Report should satisfy pattern in XSD.
  • SUREFIRE-1562 - Support Java 11
  • SUREFIRE-1565 - Surefire should support parameterized reportsDirectory

Tasks:

  • SUREFIRE-1569 - m-invoker-p:3.1.0 attempts to reolve maven-surefire-common:jar:2.22.1-SNAPSHOT from remote repo 'apache.snapshots'
  • SUREFIRE-1578 - Remove obsolete module surefire-setup-integration-tests

Dependency upgrades:

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team