The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Javadoc Plugin, version 3.0.0 This plugin uses the Javadoc tool to generate javadocs for the specified project. https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/download.cgi Release Notes - Maven Javadoc Plugin - Version 3.0.0 ** Bug * [MJAVADOC-467] - Aggregator reports should not require modules to be installed/deployed. * [MJAVADOC-472] - Conflicting dependency of plexus-utils are used * [MJAVADOC-476] - Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki * [MJAVADOC-477] - Use Javadoc instead of JavaDoc in the reporting output * [MJAVADOC-488] - Latest jdk9 version causes StringIndexOutOfBoundsException * [MJAVADOC-489] - Javadoc plugin needs to set module path * [MJAVADOC-494] - javadoc:aggregate ignores repositories declared in sub-modules * [MJAVADOC-497] - javadoc:aggregate ignores excludePackageNames * [MJAVADOC-498] - "module not found" when Java 9 module-info present ** Dependency upgrade * [MJAVADOC-485] - Upgrade to commons-lang3 * [MJAVADOC-486] - Upgrade to Doxia 1.7 ** Improvement * [MJAVADOC-387] - Handle JDK8 -Xdoclint * [MJAVADOC-456] - Upgrade to Maven3 plugin * [MJAVADOC-457] - Clean up mojo parameters * [MJAVADOC-493] - Upgrade to QDox 2 * [MJAVADOC-502] - Update DEFAULT_JAVA_API_LINKS ** New Feature * [MJAVADOC-475] - Replace parameter additionalparam with additionalOptions * [MJAVADOC-500] - Add support for explicit toolchain reference ** Task * [MJAVADOC-458] - Upgrade of plexus-archiver to 3.4. * [MJAVADOC-459] - Upgrade of maven-archiver to 3.1.0. * [MJAVADOC-460] - Upgrade of maven-archiver to 3.1.1. * [MJAVADOC-461] - Upgrade of maven-plugins parent to 30. * [MJAVADOC-463] - Upgrade of commons-logging to 1.2. * [MJAVADOC-464] - Upgrade of log4j to 1.2.17. * [MJAVADOC-465] - Upgrade of commons-lang to 2.6. * [MJAVADOC-466] - Upgrade of httpclient to 4.5.2. * [MJAVADOC-474] - Deprecate parameter additionalparam * [MJAVADOC-491] - Require Java 7 Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team