The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the
Apache Maven Plugin Tools, version 3.6.0.

The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to generate

rebarbative content like descriptor, help and documentation. In addition,

it provides tools to write Maven Plugins in scripting languages like Ant

or Beanshell.

The Maven Plugin Plugin is used to create a Maven plugin descriptor for

any Mojo’s found in the source tree, to include in the JAR. It is also

used to generate report files for the Mojos as well as for updating the

plugin registry, the artifact metadata and generating a generic help goal.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-plugin-plugin
  3.6.0

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Plugin Tools – Version 3.6.0

Bugs:

  • MPLUGIN-336 – broken in JDK 10/JDK 11 – IllegalArgumentException
  • MPLUGIN-337 – Try to derive JDK requirements also from release parameter

Tasks:

  • MPLUGIN-332 – remove plugin:updateRegistry goal, which is unused in Maven 3
  • MPLUGIN-344 – Upgrade plexus-archiver 3.6.0

Dependency upgrade:

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team