The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Release Plugin, version 2.4
This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of
repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps: prepare
and perform.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/
You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
</plugin>
Release Notes - Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.4
** Bug
* [MRELEASE-186] - Active profiles are not carried through into the
release descriptor
* [MRELEASE-260] - Profiles given on command-line not added to
exec.additionalArguments
* [MRELEASE-415] - Plugin fails to activate profiles in submodules.
* [MRELEASE-459] - releaseProfiles has no effect without passing
profiles in the command line
* [MRELEASE-511] - release:prepare "Error parsing version, cannot
determine next version: Unable to parse the version string" when running
in batch mode.
* [MRELEASE-571] - When collecting active profiles, the active
profiles from parent poms are not considered
* [MRELEASE-614] - releaseProfiles works only if at least one
(default) profile is activated in the same pom.xml
* [MRELEASE-619] - release:branch doesn't work as expected with
multi-module projects
* [MRELEASE-667] - Profiles activated in settings.xml can't be
deactivated for release
* [MRELEASE-750] - String index out of range: -1 in
ReleaseUtils.loadResolvedDependencies() when using Parent-Module-Layout
* [MRELEASE-755] - When passing arguments to underlying maven
executions not all maven options are accepted
* [MRELEASE-772] - mvn release:prepare fails with IOException and a
write error (Access is denied)
* [MRELEASE-775] - IllegalStateException while checking for
modifications if multiple exclusion patterns match
* [MRELEASE-785] - Arguments containing spaces and quotes cause the
forked maven process to fail
* [MRELEASE-786] - -Darguments doesn't allow -T to be passed to forked
builds for multi threading
* [MRELEASE-787] - release:prepare-with-pom fails when
suppressCommitBeforeTag is used (SVN)
* [MRELEASE-795] - Wrong level when using release:branch
* [MRELEASE-808] - Can't generate release-pom.xml when custom
finalName contains ${project.version}
** Improvement
* [MRELEASE-559] - Clarify parameter documentation for release:branch
* [MRELEASE-734] - When releaseVersion and developmentVersion are
passed in command-line but are empty should be treated as not-defined
* [MRELEASE-783] - release:update-versions should not need SCM config
* [MRELEASE-796] - Add AbstractScmReleaseMojo
** New Feature
* [MRELEASE-592] - Please allow de-activation of profiles
** Task
* [MRELEASE-776] - use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations
Enjoy,
-The Apache Maven team
