Version 3.11.1 of the VersionEye Maven Plugin is out and here are the change logs. This release brings a couple improvements and BugFix!

BugFix

Assume you have a Maven multi module project with 3 modules. Now you add the VersionEye Maven Plugin to the parent pom and run mvn versioneye:create . That will create a new project with subprojects in VersionEye. Now on your CI system on each build you run maybe this goal: mvn versioneye:securityAndLicenseCheck . That will always update the VersionEye project with the current dependencies from your Maven project and check them for security vulnerabilities and license violations. Everything works so far.

Now you are adding a new Maven module to your Maven reactor build and the next execution of mvn versioneye:securityAndLicenseCheck will fail, because it will try to update an non existing module on the VersionEye server.

This bug is fixed now! Version 3.11.1 of the VersionEye Maven Plugin can handle newly added Maven modules. If a new module is added it will automatically create a new subproject for that on the VersionEye server.

Improved Merging

For Maven multi module projects one project is created for the parent pom and for each module a project is created on the VersionEye server and merged into the project for the parent pom. This merging process was working through the GAV coordinates of the parent pom. That was leading to problems if the same project was monitored twice on a VersionEye server. The new merge mechanism is independent from the GAV coordinates, it only relies on the project ID from the VersionEye API.

Support for Project License

The VersionEye Maven Plugin is resolving all dependencies locally and only sends a pom.json file to the VersionEye API, which contains only the needed information. Now this pom.json file also contains the license from the pom.xml file and the project license is displayed in the web interface.