The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.5 The Site Plugin is used to generate a site for the project. The generated site also includes the project's reports that were configured in the POM. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/ Notice there are breaking changes to know when upgrading: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/migrate.html You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.5</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/download.cgi Release Notes - Maven Site Plugin - Version 3.5 ** Sub-task * [MSITE-762] - Upgrade Velocity from 1.5 to 1.7 ** Bug * [MSITE-135] - inherited site.xml files are interpolated with the originating project's model values and not the consumer project's values * [MSITE-604] - Properties from settings.xml are not recognized in site distribution management * [MSITE-694] - When maven.site.skip=true, mvn site:jar doesn't skip the generation of the jar * [MSITE-702] - Overriding skin resources / Duplicate copying of skin resources * [MSITE-724] - An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.4:jar * [MSITE-743] - Automatic breadcrumbs generates URLs inconsistent with menus: should point to index.html * [MSITE-744] - Regression in 3.4: File in `generated-site/resources/` ignored unless there is a file in `generated-site/markdown/` too * [MSITE-750] - site plugin doesn't override correctly parent distributionManagement site url with another one defined in child project when dav: * [MSITE-752] - Cannot use server side includes. * [MSITE-754] - ConcurrentModificationException when using site:run * [MSITE-760] - when using templateFile, skin is downloaded and info message "Rendering site with skin" ** Improvement * [MSITE-696] - site:deploy try to deploy the site of a sub module even if the property maven.site.skip is set to true * [MSITE-708] - Doc about filtering incorrect about macros rules * [MSITE-723] - "About" report generated even though index.apt is available in "generated-site" * [MSITE-727] - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component. * [MSITE-729] - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.9 * [MSITE-740] - Allow multiple extensions for given format * [MSITE-746] - FAQ contains inaccurate description regarding the site life cycle * [MSITE-755] - Upgrade Doxia Sitetools from 1.6 to 1.7 * [MSITE-765] - upgrade Doxia from 1.6 to 1.7 ** New Feature * [MSITE-756] - add an option to dump Velocity processed Doxia files ** Task * [MSITE-753] - remove deprecated template and templateDirectory parameters * [MSITE-759] - Update "Configuring the Site Descriptor" page for Doxia (Sitetools) 1.7 * [MSITE-763] - Fix issues reported by dependency:analyze * [MSITE-766] - Upgrade to Commons Lang 3 ** Wish * [MSITE-326] - Make input source file encoding default to platform encoding Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team