Could be a good idea to upgrade... Maybe we could try it during the next release? Thanks -Vincent Begin forwarded message:

From: "Olivier Lamy" <[email protected]> Date: October 30, 2008 11:42:18 PM CEST To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Cc: "Maven Developers List" <[email protected]> Subject: [ANN] Maven Release Plugin 2.0-beta-8 Released Reply-To: "Maven Developers List" <[email protected]>

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Release Plugin, version 2.0-beta-8.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0-beta-8</version> </plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.0-beta-8

** Bug * [MRELEASE-87] - Poms are written with wrong encodings * [MRELEASE-188] - release:perform is not updating some modules to the next version identifier correctly. * [MRELEASE-201] - Deployed POM is not valid XML * [MRELEASE-221] - XML header missing in modified POM after release:prepare * [MRELEASE-223] - Generated pom.xml has invalid chars (does not correctly handle xml entities) * [MRELEASE-254] - tests failed on windows * [MRELEASE-255] - during a release several elements are removed from the pom.xml (which should be left there) * [MRELEASE-267] - Whitespaces in artifactId or groupId prevent version update * [MRELEASE-268] - Release is broken with Subversion 1.3.x and earlier * [MRELEASE-302] - Test don't pass on windows due to encoding issues * [MRELEASE-305] - release:prepare forgets a slash when changing the <scm> urls * [MRELEASE-337] - generated command line must remove newLine characters * [MRELEASE-351] - xml declaration removed on release * [MRELEASE-355] - Deploying from Leopard, with Svn 1.4.4 has error on automated Svn commit * [MRELEASE-360] - NullPointerException in release * [MRELEASE-364] - InvokerMavenExecutor fails with NPE if additional arguments are not set * [MRELEASE-365] - ForkedMavenExecutor fails with NoSuchMethodError * [MRELEASE-366] - Using InvokerMavenExecutor fails in combination with space in paths

** Improvement * [MRELEASE-173] - Allow command line specification of versions * [MRELEASE-321] - Add support for -DdevelopmentVersion and -DreleaseVersion to facilitate command line configuration * [MRELEASE-341] - support release process that use a staging repository * [MRELEASE-345] - Keep comments in rewritten elements * [MRELEASE-359] - Release plugin depends on mvn being in the path of the shell that started the current build * [MRELEASE-382] - Specifying workingDirectory as system property on CL is not picked up by release:perform

** New Feature * [MRELEASE-369] - upgrade scm version to last 1.1 (and add by default new providers accurev and git)

** Task * [MRELEASE-316] - remove copy of plexus-utils' XML encoding support sources

** Wish * [MRELEASE-313] - add an option to set the profile(s) used to perform the release

Have fun !

-The Maven team

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