Maven 1.0 RC2 Released

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Maven 1.0 RC2.

http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html

Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM). The intent of Maven is to make intra-project development highly manageable in the hopes of providing more time for cross-project development.

RC2 is a release candidate for Maven 1.0. The main focus for this release was

  • Remove a memory leak in long-lived and multiple project builds
  • Reworking the internals for more maintainability while retaining full backwards compatibility with RC1.
  • Many other bugfixes

For a complete list of changes in the Maven core, see JIRA.

While no new features have been added to Maven's central architecture, RC2 includes all the latest releases of the plugins developed at Apache. Most plugins include bugfixes and new functionality since the RC1 release.

In addition, the following plugins have been added to the release:

announcementgenerates templated release announcements for a project
aspectwerkzAspectwerkz integration
caller A goal interface for Maven plugins
dashboard A report plugin that aggregates reports from multiple projects
javacc generates code based on user-supplied Javacc/JJtree grammars
jdiff generates an api difference report between versions
jetty Jetty integration
jira generates a Maven report from JIRA
multichanges A report plugin that aggregates changes reports from multiple projects
nsis generates a Windows Installer for your project using the Nullsoft Installer System

The following plugins have had major upgrades since the last release:

  • pdf: a complete rewrite now produces a much better PDF representation of your project site.
  • xdoc: Maven site's now have a new default look-and-feel and are more customisable

For changes made to individual plugins since the last release, you can review the release history at JIRA.

The following plugins are no longer distributed with Maven and must be downloaded from an external source:

We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult:

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- The Apache Maven Team