The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Dependency Plugin, version 2.6
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>2.6</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.6 ** Bug * [MDEP-122] - Analyze target does not work correctly when only using a constant defined in a different module * [MDEP-124] - Dependency incorrectly reported as "Unused declared" * [MDEP-176] - excludes not considered in analyze? * [MDEP-205] - type configuration ignored in sources goal * [MDEP-253] - Purge does not purge released artifacts * [MDEP-256] - invoking purge-local-repository leads to deletion of %JDK_HOME%/lib/tools.jar * [MDEP-272] - purge-local-repository does nothing if certain dependencies are included * [MDEP-298] - mvn dependency:sources lists parameters 'classifier' and 'type', but manually overrides them * [MDEP-300] - Unpacking artifacts should be based on type, with fallback on file-extension * [MDEP-328] - scriptableOutput/scriptableFlag have no effect * [MDEP-353] - Unit tests fail on Windows * [MDEP-366] - NPE when running site * [MDEP-371] - useJvmChmod true by default * [MDEP-376] - -Dexcludes filtering not working anymore * [MDEP-383] - Update purge-local-repository to work in Maven 3 * [MDEP-388] - NPE in analyze-report ** Improvement * [MDEP-173] - Support 'includes' in purge-local-repository * [MDEP-246] - purge-local-repository inclusions * [MDEP-285] - Document abstract method org.apache.maven.plugin.dependency.AbstractDependencyFilterMojo.getMarkedArtifactFilter() * [MDEP-287] - Make maven-dependency-plugin @threadSafe * [MDEP-343] - Add "skip" parameter for copy-dependencies * [MDEP-360] - Allow using folder as dependency:get destination parameter * [MDEP-377] - use last plexus-utils 3.0.7 which is faster on copying files. * [MDEP-384] - build-classpath should be able to use the artifact's baseVersion * [MDEP-385] - Default fuzziness level should be version instead of file * [MDEP-386] - Split purge-local-repository into manual and transitive ** New Feature * [MDEP-210] - Support includes/excludes configuration in analyze * [MDEP-380] - copy-dependencies should be able to use the artifact's baseVersion * [MDEP-381] - Unpack an artifact from commandline Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
