Hi, The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.11.
This release permits the use of custom annotations in lieu of @IgnoreJRERequirement Animal Sniffer provides tools to assist verifying that classes compiled with a newer JDK/API are compatible with an older JDK/API. The following tools are provided by animal sniffer: * A command line tool to dump the class file version number (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/index.html). This helps you track down the offending jar file when you see UnsupportedClassVersionError. * A set of ANT tasks (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-ant-tasks/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as tasks for creating API signatures from a JDK, or a collection or jar and class files, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements. * A rule for use in the maven-enforcer-plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-enforcer-rule/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature . * A maven plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as for creating API signatures from a JDK, or the current module's classes, or the current module's dependencies, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements. The artifacts are available from the Maven Central repository. Release Notes - Mojo Animal Sniffer - Version 1.11 ** Improvement * [MANIMALSNIFFER-41] - Define a custom annotation instead of relying on @IgnoreJRERequirement Enjoy, The Mojo Team.
