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From: Brett Porter <[email protected]> Date: October 8, 2010 7:03:48 PM GMT+02:00 To: [email protected], Maven Users List <[email protected]> Cc: Maven Developers List <[email protected]> Subject: [ANN] Maven Release Plugin 2.1 Released Reply-To: [email protected]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Release Plugin, version 2.1

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps: prepare and perform.

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>2.1</version> </plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Release Plugin - Version 2.1

** Bug * [MRELEASE-128] - SCM properties being replaced during release:perform * [MRELEASE-317] - release:prepare should fail if any pom depends on SNAPSHOT parent * [MRELEASE-318] - Release plugin throws NullPointerException when using version range for dependency * [MRELEASE-350] - Option '0' for "specify the selection number ( 0:All 1:Project Dependencies 2:Plugins 3:Reports 4:Extensions ):" is broken * [MRELEASE-370] - release:prepare is not updating inter-modules dependencies to the next version snapshot identifier correctly (-DdryRun=true). * [MRELEASE-458] - Branch Does Not Honor updateWorkingCopyVersions Setting * [MRELEASE-524] - command line versions don't seem to work on release:branch for specific format * [MRELEASE-536] - CommonBasedir Calculation fails on windows * [MRELEASE-546] - regression introduced in MRELEASE-261 * [MRELEASE-551] - Unable to release with maven 3 when having no $HOME/.m2/settings.xml * [MRELEASE-563] - help strings need help, they are not helpful out of context * [MRELEASE-586] - release:perform - The temporary file "pom.xml.branch" should be ignored as "pom.xml.next" and "pom.xml.tag" are ignored * [MRELEASE-589] - Resolved dependencies overwritten when multiple subprojects with SNAPSHOT dependencies are released

** Improvement * [MRELEASE-497] - Don't overwrite SVN auth cache * [MRELEASE-530] - Git provider does 'git push' during 'mvn release:prepare' which causes unwanted problems (scm 1.4 upgrade) * [MRELEASE-554] - Allow custom files to be modified before doing a prepare or branch... * [MRELEASE-583] - Better Snapshot Dependency Handling

Enjoy, -The Maven team

-- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/