The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven 3.3.9. http://maven.apache.org/ You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi Release Notes - Apache Maven Version 3.3.9 https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316922&version=12333074 Code Contributors of this release: * Martin Schäf * Stuart McCulloch * sugartxy * Robert Stern * Florencia Tarditti * tssp * Dave Syer * Joseph Walton * Stephen Kitt * Anton Tanasenko * Tang Xinye * Ben Caradoc-Davies Issue Reporters of this release: * Brandon Enochs * Martin Schäf * Stephan Schroevers * Christian Schlichtherle * Brandon Enochs * Anders Forsell * Shubham Chaurasia * Keith Turner * Jonathan Radon * Ben Caradoc-Davies Many thanks to contributors and reporters for the support and time. Participants to VOTE of the Maven 3.3.4 till the Maven 3.3.9 Release: * Francisco Collao Gárate * Anton Tanasenko * Mark Derricut * Eric Barboni * Jieren * Jörg Schaible * Gary Gregory * Mark Derricut Many thanks to those who tested the Maven releases and thanks for their support as well. Bugs: * [MNG-5297] - Mark <prerequisites> as deprecated for compile-time enforcement. (Contributor: Joseph Walton) * [MNG-5649] - Use Commons Lang's Validate to intercept invalid input * [MNG-5681] - Properties on command line with leading or trailing quotes are stripped * [MNG-5721] - Possible NullPointerException in org.apache.maven.repository.MetadataResolutionResult (reporter/contributor Martin Schäf ). * [MNG-5786] - Variable maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory may be set incorrectly (reporter Stephan Schroevers). * [MNG-5787] - Moving from Maven 3.0.5 to 3.3.3 breaks plugins with some dependencies on the class path (reporter Christian Schlichtherle). * [MNG-5796] - mvn fails when the current directory is a root drive on Windows (reporter Brandon Enochs). * [MNG-5812] - Project base dir not fully working in Cygwin (contributor tssp). * [MNG-5813] - Make MAVEN_OPTS env variable with mvnDebug correctly * [MNG-5816] - Empty maven.config cause Maven to exit with failure (contributor tssp) * [MNG-5840] - <relativePath> is used if the groupId and artifactId match irrespective of the version * [MNG-5858] - mvn script fails to locate .mvn in current directory (contributor Dave Syer). * [MNG-5877] - maven-aether-provider/maven-compat does not always generate snapshot versions using Gregorian calendar year (contributor Joseph Walton; reporter Anders Forsell). * [MNG-5882] - Nonportable shell constructs cause bin/mvn errors on Debian (contributor Ben Caradoc-Davies) * [MNG-5884] - mvn script doesn't handle directories containing spaces (contributor Stephen Kitt). * [MNG-5886] - Broken link of 'Building Maven' in README.md on Github (reporter Shubham Chaurasia). * [MNG-5891] - Log file command line option description contains an extra word (reporter Keith Turner). * [MNG-5898] - Multi-module build with ear fails to resolve war in 3.3.3 (reporter Jonathan Radon). * [MNG-5907] - org.apache.maven.repository.internal.RemoteSnapshotMetadataTest fails to start at midnight Improvements: * [MNG-5780] - upgrade Java minimum version prerequisite from Java 6 to Java 7 * [MNG-5805] - Custom packaging types: configuring DefaultLifecycleMapping mojo executions (contributor Anton Tanasenko). * [MNG-5818] - Disallow the programmatic injection of project dependencies * [MNG-5844] - Close IO Streams in finally or try-with-resource statement (contributor Tang Xinye) * [MNG-5871] - make url inheritance algorithm more visible * [MNG-5888] - Update used modello version from 1.8.1 to 1.8.3 * [MNG-5892] - Removing par lifecycle from default life cycle bindings * [MNG-5893] - Make used plugin version for maven-resources-plugin in default-bindings.xml consistent * [MNG-5894] - Removed binding for maven-ejb3-plugin from default binding * [MNG-5905] - Maven build does not work with Maven 2.2.1 * [MNG-5906] - Use canonical name for UTC timezone * [MNG-5911] - Upgrade maven-parent to version 27 * [MNG-5915] - Upgrade Wagon version to 2.10 * [MNG-5921] - Upgraded to plexus-components 1.6 that uses asm 5.x * [MNG-5922] - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22 to support combine.id as configuration attribute for Map merging * [MNG-5923] - Switch to official Guice 4.0 (reporter/contributor: Stuart McCulloch) * [MNG-5924] - Upgrade to Eclipse/Sisu 0.3.2 (reporter/contributor: Stuart McCulloch). * [MNG-5925] - Update animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to 1.14. MANIMALSNIFFER-49 required when building with JDK9 Task: * [MNG-5887] - update Modello site url Enjoy, - The Apache Maven team