So I guess it is safe to upgrade... Let's do it! :-)
Also I found this interesting bit: http://tinyurl.com/28pl97 that I can confirm myself. The issues that we stumbled upon are still not fixed:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-128? Andrus
Saw a note on geronimo dev list about the new Maven version (and the
encouraging fact that Geronimo was successfully built with it). Had a
minute to try it out. It actually works - I was able to build the
Cayenne tree from scratch (over the existing local repo).
