The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Parent POMs Version 34. Maven Parent POMs include Maven Parent POM itself, but also Maven Plugins Parent POM, Maven Shared Components Parent POM, Maven Skins Parent POM and Maven Doxia Tools Parent POM.
https://maven.apache.org/pom/maven/ You should specify the version in your project as parent like the following: <parent> <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId> <artifactId>maven-parent</artifactId> <version>34</version> </parent> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/pom/maven/download.html Release Notes - Maven POMs - Version MAVEN-34 ** Bug * [MPOM-221] - All Links for Diff produce Forbidden * [MPOM-235] - Google Custom Search broken ** New Feature * [MPOM-223] - Introduce parent for extensions ** Improvement * [MPOM-216] - Update java minimum version to 7 * [MPOM-226] - Ignore .asf.yaml for license check in apache-rat-plugin * [MPOM-230] - Remove maven-report ** Task * [MPOM-217] - remove plexus javadoc taglet configuration ** Dependency upgrade * [MPOM-212] - upgrade plexus-component-metadata to 2.0.0 to get reproducible plexus/components.xml * [MPOM-234] - Upgrade apache-rat-plugin to 0.13 Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
