Maven - Release Notes

Maven 2.0.6

The full list of changes can be found in our issue management system, and is reproduced below.

MNG-1577 - Maven will now only obey the <dependencyManagement> element in the POM and will align all transitive dependencies to versions specified in the <dependencyManagement>. To detect any problems that you might have you can refer to these upgrade notes for Maven 2.0.6 to prepare for the upgrade.

[MNG-1577] - dependencyManagement does not work for transitive dependencies
[MNG-2339] - ${project.*} are interpreted in the wrong place
[MNG-2362] - Deployed POM is not valid XML
[MNG-2433] - Maven looks for snapshots in offline mode
[MNG-2648] - Repeated message "[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository ... "
[MNG-2760] - Fix deployment so that assemblies are signed with the GPG plugin
[MNG-2793] - Snapshot plugins cannot be resolved correctly with java6
[MNG-2812] - Profile with an undefined os family activation should not activate
[MNG-2843] - Plugins can't get project properties
[MNG-2867] - Guide building maven not up to date
[MNG-2877] - unable to resolve attached artifacts from reactor that are not in repo. (patch applied in svn and IT tests added)
[MNG-2891] - Fix deployment permissions so by default group write works
[MNG-2897] - Make sure that Xpp3Dom is shared from the core to plugins
[MNG-2899] - In cases where ${version} is used in depMan we get null versions in attached artifacts
[MNG-2900] - Extensions that have no declared dependency on plexus-utils yet need it at runtime will fail.

[MNG-2252] - Upgrade to plexus-utils 1.3
[MNG-2823] - More control over what WARNING messages are displayed
[MNG-2828] - Upgrade the dependency on plexus-utils to a more recent version
[MNG-2892] - Use shade to hide the use of plexus-utils internally so that plugins can use their own version

[MNG-2776] - Upgrade the dependency on modello-maven-plugin to a more recent version
[MNG-2894] - Make sure that if a plugin does not specify the use of plexus-utils that once is fed in to protect against plugins that use plexus-utils but don't declare it.
[MNG-2898] - Look at allowing all org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml to show through