News and Status

This document contains the latest news and status regarding the Maven project. It is here you'll find announcements related to Maven.

Current Status

We are currently catching developing a roadmap for future Maven development in the 1.x and 2.x series.

13 July 2004 - Maven 1.0 released!

See the Release Notes for more information.

29 June 2004 - Maven 1.0 RC4 released!

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21 May 2004 - Maven 1.0 RC3 released!

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24 March 2004 - Maven 1.0 RC2 released!

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30 September 2003 - Maven 1.0 RC1 released!

Another quiet release mostly fixing problems with plugins and leaving some core refactoring problems for the next leg of development.

15 July 2003 - Maven 1.0 Beta 10 is released!

Another quiet release mostly fixing problems with plugins and leaving some core refactoring problems for the next leg of development.

12 February 2003 - Maven 1.0 Beta 8 is released!

This was a quiet release as there was a quite an overhaul in the core of Maven. The core was slimmed down and a lot of code was moved into the plugins. In lieu of a set of detailed changes we are trying to get the documentation up to scratch as fast as possible. But here are some of the more notable changes:

  • Goal caching for much faster start-up times
  • Start of general artifact support
  • Unsatisfied dependency exception
  • Maven jar override support for version number
  • Offline support for snapshots
  • i18n support
  • DVSL has been replaced with JSL for stability and reliability reasons
  • Plugins will now work to generate project skeletons i.e. no project.xml need be present.
  • Maven sample project generator
  • Abstract tests are automatically exluded from test execution
  • All resource usage has been unified.
  • Reactor tag usage has changed from: <reactor:execute/> to <maven:reactor/>

1 October 2002 - Maven 1.0 Beta 7 is released!

This version is primarily a bugfix release. Changes in this version include:

  • Codeswitcher plug-in has been added. This is a Java preprocessor plug-in.
  • Examples plug-in has been added. This provides basic working Maven example projects.
  • IDEA plug-in has been added.
  • Jalopy plug-in has been added.
  • JBuilder plug-in has been added.
  • Perforce plug-in has been added.
  • StatCVS plug-in has been added. This provides some visuals of the state of your CVS repository.
  • Word2Html plug-in has been added.

20 August 2002 - Maven 1.0 Beta 6 is released!

This version is primarily a bugfix release. Changes in this version include:

  • Manifests are created properly within JARs. We had a temporary glitch when moving from Ant 1.4.1 to Ant 1.5.
  • Tags created with the <define:tag/> will now execute N times within the same goal.
  • Property files precedence has been changed so that project defaults can be overriden by a project local build.properties, and those in turn can be overriden by {user.home}/build.properties.
  • The <deploy:copy-deps/> tag will now take an optional excludes attribute which will accept a list dependency ids where each dependency that is listed will be excluded from the copy.
  • Execution of the maven.bat file has been corrected for Win9x systems.
  • Time stats shown at the end of a build are now correct.
  • AspectJ plug-in has been added.
  • Eclipse plug-in has been added.

12 August 2002 - Maven 1.0 Beta 5 is released!

We finally got 1.0 Beta 5 out the door. Whew! There are still some issues to resolve before a full 1.0 release, primarily involving some fixes to the inheritance mechanism and some fixes for Ant 1.5. There will probably be two more betas before the 1.0 release.

5 August 2002 - Collaborating with Ibiblio!

The folks at Ibiblio are now hosting Maven's central repository! After a short period of working together we now have a highly reliable central repository that has the bandwidth to support the usage we hope that Maven gets! Many thanks to John Reuning for facilitating the creation of the central Maven repository at Ibiblio.

25 March 2002 - Collaborating with Style.tigris.org

The Maven team is now collaborating with Style.tigris.org. The look and feel of all Maven-generated sites is due in part to the CSS gurus at Style. Thanks to the help of Daniel Rall and Todd Fahrner for establishing Style.tigris.org so that we can collaborate!