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25 June 2005 - Apache Maven 2.0 alpha 3 Now Available

The Apache Maven team is proud to announce the third alpha release of Maven 2.0.

Download it from http://maven.apache.org/maven2/download.html

This release includes 83 bug fixes and enhancements since the previous release on 13 May.

Maven 2.0 is a rewrite of the popular Maven application to achieve a number of goals, and to provide a stable basis to take it into the future. While it can be considered quite stable, and future versions are now expected to retain a high amount of backwards compatibility, this is still a technology preview, and not yet complete or considered ready for a production environment.

The main new features in this release are:

• Improved dependency management


• Build profiles for environment specific settings and dependencies


• Finalised build lifecycle


• Proper handling of derived dependency type such as sources, javadocs and ejb clients


• Beanshell plugin support


• Improved reporting support, including internationalisation.


• Improvements to the Ant tasks


• Better plugin management, with the ability to select specific versions for use


• Various plugin improvements

This release is very near to being feature complete, and the next release will be a feature complete beta-1.

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

• the web site: http://maven.apache.org/maven2/


• the maven-user mailing list: http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html

For news and information, see:

• Maven Blogs: http://www.mavenblogs.com/

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