The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Software Foundation Parent POM Version 17.
http://maven.apache.org/pom/asf/ You should specify the version in your project as parent like the following: <parent> <groupId>org.apache</groupId> <artifactId>apache</artifactId> <version>17</version> </parent> Release Notes - Apache Software Foundation Parent POM - Version 17 https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311250&version=12329009 Bug: * [MPOM-69] - avoid Rat plugin warning Improvement: * [MPOM-47] - Source release assembly can't do tar.gz only * [MPOM-64] - Change maven-source-goal from jar to jar-no-fork * [MPOM-65] - Add maven-war-plugin definition * [MPOM-66] - The ASF global pom should upgrade SUREFIRE@2.18.1 * [MPOM-71] - remove Maven 2.x support in ASF parent * [MPOM-74] - Upgrade maven compiler source/target to 1.5 * [MPOM-75] - Upgrade maven-resources-plugin to 2.7 * [MPOM-76] - Upgrade maven-source-plugin to 2.4 * [MPOM-77] - Upgrade maven-compiler-plugin to 3.2 Changes since version 16: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/pom/tags/apache-17/pom.xml?r1=HEAD&r2=1639452&diff_format=h Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team