The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Dependency Plugin, version 2.8
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>2.8</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin - Version 2.8 ** Bug * [MDEP-312] - copyPom with useRepositoryLayout copies pom to wrong location * [MDEP-374] - dependency:tree -Dverbose isn't verbose anymore * [MDEP-379] - useSubDirectoryPerArtifact creates folder with wrong format * [MDEP-395] - get doesn't copy transitive dependencies to output directory * [MDEP-407] - add support for Maven 3.1-A1/Eclipse Aether 0.9-M2 to dependency:tree * [MDEP-411] - copy-dependencies with useRepositoryLayout and copyPoms copies the poms twice * [MDEP-416] - dependency:copy-dependencies addParentPoms causes NPE with Maven 2 ** Improvement * [MDEP-128] - Support ability to specify multiple "includeScope" parameters * [MDEP-414] - Add option to sort output of dependency:resolve/list * [MDEP-415] - Add option to include parent poms in dependency:resolve output ** New Feature * [MDEP-412] - add an option to copy dependencies with their parent poms + parent poms of current project ** Wish * [MDEP-321] - Remove final declaration from class UnpackMojo Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org