The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Utils, version 0.9.
The release contains a number of bug fixes. https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-shared-utils/ You should specify the version in your project's dependencies configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId> <artifactId>maven-shared-utils</artifactId> <version>0.9</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Shared Components - Version maven-shared-utils-0.9 <h2> Bug </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-426'>MSHARED-426</a>] - Upgrade maven-assembly-plugin to Version 2.5.5 </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-434'>MSHARED-434</a>] - NPE due to concurrent calls in close() method of StreamFeeder class </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-435'>MSHARED-435</a>] - createSymbolicLink() ClassCastException </li> </ul> <h2> Improvement </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-436'>MSHARED-436</a>] - PrettyPrintXmlWriter produces too much garbage and is therefore slower than needed </li> </ul> Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team