The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Dependency Analyzer Version 1.7 https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-dependency-analyzer/ Analyzes the dependencies of a project for undeclared or unused artifacts. You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId> <artifactId>maven-analyzer</artifactId> <version>1.7</version> </dependency> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-dependency-analyzer/download.cgi Release Notes Maven Archiver 1.7: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317922&version=12334271 Bugs: * [MSHARED-428] - maven-dependency-analyzer does not detect method references * [MSHARED-545] - maven-dependency-analyzer fails on classes containing constant long or double Improvements: * [MSHARED-412] - Change the visibility of DefaultProjectDependencyAnalyzer's buildArtifactClassMap() from private to protected * [MSHARED-470] - Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 22 * [MSHARED-525] - Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 30 Tasks: * [MSHARED-633] - Upgrade plexus-component-metadata / plexus-component-annotation to 1.7.1 * [MSHARED-634] - Using maven-inovker 2.2 to ensure it works with all Maven versions on Windows Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team