The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Dependency Plugin, version 2.5
The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.5 ** Bug * [MDEP-297] - Documentation Problem of an attribute * [MDEP-352] - Attributes for ArtifactItems referenced in AbstractFromConfigurationMojo.java are incorrect (documentation patch attached) * [MDEP-356] - maven dependency plugin should use maven 3 dependency resolver, aether ** Improvement * [MDEP-286] - Typo in documentation * [MDEP-339] - tree mojo doesn't work with maven3 * [MDEP-344] - Documentation for dependency:tree goal is incorrect * [MDEP-357] - use plugins annotations ** Task * [MDEP-363] - The plugin should not write debug messages to 'System.out'. Enjoy, -The Maven team
