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new 0393d363 Add link to Maven 4 encryption (#1441)
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commit 0393d3638cc91bf072ad4abd1ac4d21ea0962b3c
Author: Konrad Windszus <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 23 14:51:05 2025 +0200
Add link to Maven 4 encryption (#1441)
---
content/markdown/whatsnewinmaven4.md | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/content/markdown/whatsnewinmaven4.md
b/content/markdown/whatsnewinmaven4.md
index 3b935ee7..2e90c7c8 100644
--- a/content/markdown/whatsnewinmaven4.md
+++ b/content/markdown/whatsnewinmaven4.md
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ Security is important, and storing unencrypted passwords is
bad practice.
Maven 3's password encryption had several serious issues and could more
accurately be called "password obfuscation".
Maven 4 instead has a completely redone encryption system, based on Maven
Encryption (`mvnenc`) - a standalone CLI tool.
As of now, it provides functionally equivalent operations as Maven 3 (see
["Maven: Password Encryption"][30]) but adds
-improvements like a `decrypt` functionality.
+improvements like a `decrypt` functionality and supports external vaults. The
documentation of the new encryption can be found in ["Password Encryption
(Maven 4)"][33].
A broad overview of the problems in Maven 3 and the solution in Maven 4 can be
found in the
article ["Handling sensitive data in Maven"][31] by Maven maintainer Tamás
Cservenák.
@@ -648,4 +648,5 @@ The Maven issue tracker provides a [full list of all
resolved issues of Maven 4.
[30]: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption.html
[31]: https://cstamas.org/blog/2024/09/handling-sensitive-data-in-maven/
[32]:
https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html
+[33]: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption-4.html
