+1

I think the section below in combination with "requires Maven 2.0.6 or greater" works.

- Brett

On 15/05/2008, at 10:20 AM, Dan Fabulich wrote:


The release announcement template is here:
http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/releasing.html

It currently says:

You can run mvn -up to get the latest version of the plugin, or specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-XXX-plugin</artifactId>
<version>Y.Z</version>
</plugin>

... but that's not true any more, is it? In Maven 2.0.9, running - up won't give you Surefire 2.4.3; you'll be stuck on Surefire 2.4.2. (and that's a good thing!)

Unfortunately, the new version of Surefire requires Maven 2.0.6 or higher (for toolchain support), so users of Maven 2.0.0-2.0.5 have no way to upgrade to Surefire 2.4.3; users of 2.0.6-2.0.8 will be auto-upgraded (and can force an auto-upgrade with -up) and users of 2.0.9 will have to specify the version explicitly.

I don't want to say all that in the release announcement template, right? I think it should just say something like this, omitting discussion of "-up":

You can specify the plugin version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-XXX-plugin</artifactId>
<version>Y.Z</version>
</plugin>

I'll just say something like that in the Surefire announcment I'm going to make in a few minutes; if people like this wording, I'll modify the template in the documentation.

-Dan

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