The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Wagon, version 2.5
Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Maven's artifact and repository handling code. Site http://maven.apache.org/wagon/ To make use of it, you may override the Wagon version with extension declaration within your project POM: <extensions> <extension> <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId> <artifactId>wagon-http</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> </extension> </extensions> Release notes - Apache Maven Wagon 2.5 Bug [WAGON-381] - Both Maven 2 and 3 fail to retrieve a <dependency> that is larger than Integer.MAX_VALUE [WAGON-384] - Maven fails to download artifacts larger than 2 GB [WAGON-394] - upgrade commons-logging to 1.1.2 [WAGON-395] - intermittent "ProtocolException: The server failed to respond with a valid HTTP response" [WAGON-399] - Fix for SFTP on windows machine Improvement [WAGON-388] - remove wagon-http-shared4 dependency on httpclient For any PMC member, extra step required: http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/maven-project-release-procedure.html#Copy_the_source_release_to_the_Apache_Distribution_Area Enjoy, and have fun -The Apache Maven team
