[ANN] Maven Javadoc Plugin 2.6.1 Released

[Vincent Siveton]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Javadoc
Plugin, version 2.6.1

This plugin uses the javadoc tool for generating javadocs for the
specified project.

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

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

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.6.1</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven 2.x Javadoc Plugin - Version 2.6.1

** Bug
    * [MJAVADOC-244] - Javadoc plugin: java files under
src/main/javadoc and doc-files directory are being compiled
    * [MJAVADOC-246] - ExceptionInInitializerError with
maven-site-plugin:2.1-SNAPSHOT and mvn > 2.1
    * [MJAVADOC-251] - Configuration of javadoc:javadoc fails with NPE
upon disadvantageous order of config injection
    * [MJAVADOC-252] - javadoc link : nonproxyhosts not used
    * [MJAVADOC-257] - maven-javadoc-plugin 2.5, 2.6 and mojo: Error
extracting plugin descriptor
    * [MJAVADOC-259] - Resource copying from javadoc dir is incomplete
    * [MJAVADOC-262] - Parameters like sourcepath depend on system
path separator (colon/semicolon)
    * [MJAVADOC-268] - performance problem in
AbstractJavadocMojo.getModulesLinks()

** Improvement
    * [MJAVADOC-258] - Grouping example could show multiple packages per group
    * [MJAVADOC-266] - META-INF directory copied from resource artifacts
    * [MJAVADOC-267] - Allow changing the reportOutputDirectory from
the commandline


** Task
    * [MJAVADOC-248] - Site 'Usage' page references 2.5 version of m-javadoc-p

Enjoy,

-The Maven team