Apache Maven Release Plugin Version 3.0.0-M1 Released

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Release, version 3.0.0-M1.

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps: prepare and perform.

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

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
5</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:

https://maven.apache.org/maven-release/download.cgi

Release Notes - Apache Maven Release Plugin - Version 3.0.0-M1

• Bugs:

  • MRELEASE-229 - release:rollback is missing remove tag implementation
  • MRELEASE-601 - The Maven 2 release plugin modifies CDATA elements in pom.xml files.
  • MRELEASE-694 - -SNAPSHOT is unexpectedly appended to version in branched pom.xml
  • MRELEASE-908 - Git HTTP authentication failing if there are spaces in the password
  • MRELEASE-928 - exposing the password for SCM URL if build failed to commit files to SCM
  • MRELEASE-947 - Wiki page URL for maven-release-plugin is wrong - post Codehaus termination
  • MRELEASE-964 - Error injecting: org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.RewritePomsForReleasePhase
  • MRELEASE-966 - release plugin does not respect "mvn -f"
  • MRELEASE-968 - Maven release plugin missing plexus-cipher dependency
  • MRELEASE-975 - NPE when using an unknown project versionpolicy id
  • MRELEASE-997 - Unable to release:perform on windows if a file name contains spaces on windows
  • MRELEASE-1009 - Compilation failure when using Java 10
  • MRELEASE-1034 - Remove SCM tag blocks rollback in some situations

• New Features:

  • MRELEASE-956 - Release Strategy Interface
  • MRELEASE-980 - Provide the ability to control commit messages
  • MRELEASE-985 - Override SNAPSHOT dependencies from command line
  • MRELEASE-998 - Add ability to create custom phases
  • MRELEASE-1029 - update project.build.outputTimestamp property on prepare
  • MRELEASE-1031 - display release phases to give insight on what's going on during release

• Improvements:

  • MRELEASE-703 - [PATCH] Migration from obsolete plexus-maven-plugin to plexus-containers-component-metadata
  • MRELEASE-873 - Remove possibly confusing non-standard goals from example
  • MRELEASE-896 - Disable by default and deprecate useReleaseProfile parameter
  • MRELEASE-909 - Add workItem/task support for scm deliver
  • MRELEASE-958 - Using three digit version number (semver)
  • MRELEASE-976 - release:branch should also support project version policies
  • MRELEASE-977 - release:branch should prompt for branch name if none is given
  • MRELEASE-979 - Support NamingPolicies to manage Branch and Tag names
  • MRELEASE-992 - Deprecated maven flag --no-plugin-updates shows warnings in the console output
  • MRELEASE-993 - Use shallow checkout per default (git scm)
  • MRELEASE-994 - Drop Maven2 support
  • MRELEASE-1005 - Extract ResourceGenerator from ReleasePhase
  • MRELEASE-1007 - Rework usage workingDirectory and commonBasedir
  • MRELEASE-1023 - Minor code cleanups
  • MRELEASE-1032 - add https://m.a.o/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd schema instead of http://m.a.o/maven-v4_0_0.xsd

• Tasks:

  • MRELEASE-356 - Deprecate the automated release profile
  • MRELEASE-990 - switch to Git
  • MRELEASE-1027 - New Release
  • MRELEASE-1033 - Site: Dead link to wiki

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MRELEASE-952 - Replace JDom as XML transformer
  • MRELEASE-1010 - Upgrade maven-plugins parent to version 32
  • MRELEASE-1024 - Upgrade to SCM 1.11.2

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team