slachiewicz opened a new pull request, #12878: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/12878
Per the decision in #12811 (gnodet's recommendation, accepted): stay on plexus-cipher 2.0 on the Maven 3.x maintenance branches.\n\nplexus-cipher 2.1.0 switched PBECipher's KDF from SHA-256(password||salt) to PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1/310000 iterations, making ciphertext incompatible — decrypting credentials from an existing settings.xml would throw BadPaddingException. A breaking change on a patch release is worse than the known weakness.\n\nThis PR adds a short comment above the `<cipherVersion>` property in the root POM telling maintainers/Dependabot not to bump it on this branch. The matching Dependabot ignore (`org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-cipher >=2.1.0`) is added in a companion PR against master, where `.github/dependabot.yml` lives (with `target-branch: maven-3.9.x`).\n\nMaven 4 is the migration path for stronger crypto. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
