Apache Maven 3.6.3 releases: software project management and comprehension tool
Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
Maven, a [Yiddish word](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maven) meaning *accumulator of knowledge*, began as an attempt to simplify the build processes in the Jakarta Turbine project. There were several projects, each with their own Ant build files, that were all slightly different. JARs were checked into CVS. We wanted a standard way to build the projects, a clear definition of what the project consisted of, an easy way to publish project information and a way to share JARs across several projects.
The result is a tool that can now be used for building and managing any Java-based project.
Feature
- Simple project setup that follows best practices – get a new project or module started in seconds
- Consistent usage across all projects – means no ramp up time for new developers coming onto a project
- Superior dependency management including automatic updating, dependency closures (also known as transitive dependencies)
- Able to easily work with multiple projects at the same time
- A large and growing repository of libraries and metadata to use out of the box, and arrangements in place with the largest Open Source projects for real-time availability of their latest releases
- Extensible, with the ability to easily write plugins in Java or scripting languages
- Instant access to new features with little or no extra configuration
- Ant tasks for dependency management and deployment outside of Maven
- Model based builds: Maven is able to build any number of projects into predefined output types such as a JAR, WAR, or distribution based on metadata about the project, without the need to do any scripting in most cases.
- Coherent site of project information: Using the same metadata as for the build process, Maven is able to generate a web site or PDF including any documentation you care to add, and adds to that standard reports about the state of development of the project. Examples of this information can be seen at the bottom of the left-hand navigation of this site under the “Project Information” and “Project Reports” submenus.
- Release management and distribution publication: Without much additional configuration, Maven will integrate with your source control system (such as Subversion or Git) and manage the release of a project based on a certain tag. It can also publish this to a distribution location for use by other projects. Maven is able to publish individual outputs such as a JAR, an archive including other dependencies and documentation, or as a source distribution.
- Dependency management: Maven encourages the use of a central repository of JARs and other dependencies. Maven comes with a mechanism that your project’s clients can use to download any JARs required for building your project from a central JAR repository much like Perl’s CPAN. This allows users of Maven to reuse JARs across projects and encourages communication between projects to ensure that backward compatibility issues are dealt with.
Apache Maven 3.6.3 releases.
Changelog
Sub-task
[MNG-6779] – fix jcl-over-slf4j license: Apache 2.0 instead of MIT
Bug
[MNG-6584] – Maven version 3.6.0 does not show ReasonPhrase anymore
[MNG-6759] – [REGRESSION] Maven fails to use <repositories> section from dependency when resolving transitive dependencies in some cases
[MNG-6760] – [REGRESSION] ExclusionArtifactFilter result invalid when wildcard exclusion is followed by other exclusions [MNG-6765] – [REGRESSION] tycho pom-less builds fails with 3.6.2 [MNG-6771] – Fix license issues on the binary distribution
Improvement
[MNG-6778] – Use https for schemaLocations
[MNG-6799] – avoid model interpolation instability risk: ensure StringVisitorModelInterpolator replaces StringSearchModelInterpolator
Task
[MNG-6777] – Remove duplicate resolveFile methods
[MNG-6789] – Make Maven distribution build Reproducible