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Release Notes - Maven 2.0 Alpha 3
Release Notes - Maven 2.0 Beta 1
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Brett Porter
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23 June 2005
16 September 2005
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The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the third alpha release of Maven 2.0.
The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the beta release of Maven 2.0.
Download it from {{http://maven.apache.org/maven2/download.html}}
Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model
(POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
This release includes <<{{{http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10500&styleName=Html&version=11021} 83 bug fixes and enhancements}}>>
since the previous release on 13 May.
This release includes <<{{{http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10500&styleName=Html&version=11040} 206 bug fixes and enhancements}}>>
since the previous release on 26 June.
Maven 2.0 is a rewrite of the popular Maven application to achieve a number of goals, and to provide a stable
basis to take it into the future. While it can be considered quite stable, and future versions are now expected to
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The main new features in this release are:
* Improved dependency management
* Further improved dependency management: full support for dependency ranges
* Build profiles for environment specific settings and dependencies
* Reactor project aggregation support and summary
* Finalised build lifecycle
* File system discovery of POMs and artifacts to reduce build time and use of local and remote repositories
* Proper handling of derived dependency type such as sources, javadocs and ejb clients
* Repository metadata support
* Beanshell plugin support
* System scope dependency support
* Improved reporting support, including internationalisation.
* Eclipse compiler support, ability to fork compiler
* Improvements to the Ant tasks
* Ability to automatically bundle sources and javadoc with deployments
* Better plugin management, with the ability to select specific versions for use
* Maven 1.x repository support
* Various plugin improvements
* Allow use of setters in mojos for field population
This release is very near to being feature complete, and the next release will be a feature complete beta-1.
* Ability to separate snapshot repository
* Ability to set minimum Maven version requirement for projects and plugins
* Build extension support
* Bugfixes and enhancements
This release is considered stable with a feature set comparable to Maven 1.0. Further betas and the final are expected
to be backwards compatible, with a primary goal of bugfixes, usability improvements, and documentation.
A large number of plugins will be released in the coming week to match the primary Maven 1.0 plugin set.
See {{{http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Maven+Plugin+Matrix} Maven Plugin Matrix} for more information.
We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult: