The Maven team is pleased to announce the 2.0 release of the Maven Dependency Plugin:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin This release fixes many issues and introduces several new goals for dependency analysis and output. Release Notes - Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin - Version 2.0 ** Bug * [MDEP-59] - dependency:unpack can't extract rar archives * [MDEP-74] - dependencies in test scope are not handled properly by analyze * [MDEP-75] - non-portable classpath separator in build-classpath output * [MDEP-80] - Usage page of the docs use an overWrite property, but none exists in the (auto-generated) goal reference docs * [MDEP-81] - analyzer can't handle non-pom projects that don't produce a /target folder * [MDEP-83] - Typo in "How to prepare your dependencies before updating to Maven 2.0.6" * [MDEP-91] - org.codehaus.mojo:dependency-maven-plugin takes precedence over org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin * [MDEP-93] - Tests can fail with OOME * [MDEP-95] - can't build unit tests with jdk1.4 rev 545703 * [MDEP-97] - dependency:tree not consistent with maven core's dependency tree * [MDEP-113] - Unable to find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT * [MDEP-120] - build-classpath is unable to build a classpath with runtime or test dependencies ** Improvement * [MDEP-89] - change separators in build-classpath * [MDEP-96] - Allow includes and excludes to be used simultaneously in the same filter * [MDEP-99] - Unpack SWC files * [MDEP-100] - Merge dependency:tree branch for new features * [MDEP-101] - Add dependency:list alias for dependency:resolve * [MDEP-104] - Add Analyze HTML Report * [MDEP-111] - Provide output on file as in other goals * [MDEP-119] - build-classpath should create destination directory for the classpath file * [MDEP-125] - Build-classpath should store the classpath in a Filter * [MDEP-129] - allow substitution of the absolute local repo path with a property * [MDEP-130] - allow the classpath file to be attached * [MDEP-131] - Complete i18n support for new analyze-report * [MDEP-132] - Add german translation for analyze-report mojo * [MDEP-133] - Add dedicated resource bundle for locale "en" ** New Feature * [MDEP-47] - Ability to have an includes/excludes feature on the dependency:unpack goal. * [MDEP-70] - add new mojo to perform analysis of dependencies and fail the build if certain conditions aren't met * [MDEP-71] - add report to display contents of dependency-analyzer * [MDEP-94] - Add dependency:tree goal * [MDEP-116] - [dependency :copy-dependencies ] Add parameter to allow extracting POMs
