Maven PMC, Benjamin and I would like to make a distribution available that addresses several issues with the Apache Maven 3.0.3 release. We have pushed back all bugfixes that do not involve Eclipse Aether[a] and Eclipse Sisu[b] as their incorporation into the mainline and an official release is your decision.
We haven't pushed any individual artifacts to Maven Central as part of creating the distribution, we have only created the distribution itself. If there is anything you want changed let us know and we'll change it, but we wanted to make these fixes available in a build for users who are having problems. We're not trying to represent it as anything other then a distribution that incorporates fixes users need. The build is available here: http://people.apache.org/~jvanzyl ------------------------------------ Summary of the issues ------------------------------------ Fixes pushed back to the ASF: [MNG-5064][1] mvn -nsu (--no-snapshot-updates) should not download snapshots (and break local builds) [MNG-5131][2] Wrong encoding for encrypted passwords [MNG-5113][3] NullPointerException on javadoc site generation [MNG-5137][4] Reactor resolution does not work for forked multi module builds [MNG-5096][5] <exclusion> on <dependency> with <type>test-jar</type> doesn't work in maven 3 [MNG-5135][6] Regression: in some cases aggregator mojo is unable to resolve dependencies with custom packaging Fixes not pushed back to the ASF as these are dependent on fixes in Eclipse Aether and Eclipse Sisu: [MNG-5042][7] Regression: CloningClassLoader causes StackOverflowError in groovy [MNG-5056][8] Test dependencies get packaged into WAR file. [MNG-5084][9] Resolver for plugins failing [MNG-5087][10] Maven 3 dependency resolution fails until maven-metadata-local.xml files (created by maven-invoker-plugin) are deleted [MNG-5125] [11]Regression: mvn 3.0.3 is extreemly slow with a large number of dependencies [MNG-5138][12] Dependency conflicts are extremely opaque [1]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5064 [2]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5131 [3]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5113 [4]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5137 [5]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5096 [6]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5135 [7]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5042 [8]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5056 [9]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5084 [10]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5087 [11]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5125 [12]: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5138 [a]: http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.aether/ [b]: http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.sisu/ Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Eclipse Board Member Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- If I find ten thousand ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is just one more step forward. -- Thomas Edison
