The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Parent POMs Version 42.
https://maven.apache.org/pom/maven/ You should specify the version in your project as parent like the following: <parent> <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId> <artifactId>maven-parent</artifactId> <version>42</version> </parent> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/pom/maven/download.html Release Notes - Maven POMs - Version MAVEN-42 ** Bug * [MPOM-449] - Remove the leading "1." from source/target properties ** Improvement * [MPOM-447] - activate javac's release flag when building with JDK supporting that feature * [MPOM-453] - Disable annotation processing by compiler * [MPOM-454] - Warning about usage of deprecated API by compiler * [MPOM-477] - Skip empty PMD reports * [MPOM-478] - Remove manually maintained history from site * [MPOM-483] - Make a separate module for documentation ** Task * [MPOM-482] - Publish site descriptor with new parent ** Dependency upgrade * [MPOM-448] - Update spotless-maven-plugin from 2.40.0 to 2.41.1 * [MPOM-455] - Add dependencyManagement for JUnit 5 * [MPOM-459] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jxr-plugin from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 * [MPOM-464] - Bump com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin from 2.41.1 to 2.43.0 * [MPOM-473] - Bump org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-maven-plugin from 2.7.10 to 2.7.11 * [MPOM-474] - Bump org.codehaus.mojo:extra-enforcer-rules from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 * [MPOM-485] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 * [MPOM-487] - Bump parent to 32 Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
