The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M1
The release contains 5 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming! http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M1</version> </plugin> or for failsafe: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M1</version> </plugin> or for surefire-report: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M1</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/surefire/download.cgi Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.0.0-M1 Bug [SUREFIRE-1466] - Surefire fails on a dummy:dummy dependency with a authenticating proxy [SUREFIRE-1588] - Surefire manifest jar classloading broken on latest Debian/Ubuntu Java8 New Feature [SUREFIRE-1493] - Maven Plugin API 3.0 Improvement [SUREFIRE-1212] - @Component is deprecated. @Parameter should be used instead. [SUREFIRE-1474] - Java 1.7 as minimum Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team