[ANN] Maven Archiver 2.5 Released

[Kristian Rosenvold <kr...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Archiver
shared component, version 2.5.

This component is used to create custom archives that are configured
from the POM. You can find more information at:

http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-archiver/

To use this component in your own project, you'll need to add the
following dependency entry:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-archiver</artifactId>
   <version>2.5</version>
</dependency>

Release Notes - Maven Shared Components - Version maven-archiver-2.5

** Bug
    * [MSHARED-38] - Archiver should be adding "Created-By: Apache
Maven _2.0.4_" to the manifest
    * [MSHARED-134] - Using ${artifcactId}-Extention-Name in MANIFEST
file can create invalid MANIFEST files
    * [MSHARED-182] - manifestEntry seems not to work correctly

** Improvement
    * [MSHARED-99] - Archiver should validate manifest attribute names.
    * [MSHARED-221] - maven archiver requires JDK5



Release Notes - Plexus Components - Version plexus-archiver-2.1

** Bug
    * [PLXCOMP-39] - better validation of manifest entries in plexus-archiver
    * [PLXCOMP-47] - Manifest entries containing line feeds are invalid
    * [PLXCOMP-70] - Embedded error: String index out of range: 70
    * [PLXCOMP-155] - writeManifest generates unusable MANIFEST.MF for
non-latin chars
    * [PLXCOMP-177] - JarArchiver generates lines longer than 72 bytes
in MANIFEST.MF

** Task
    * [PLXCOMP-172] - remove Ant's Manifest class: use JDK's class instead


Release Notes - Plexus Components - Version plexus-archiver-2.0

** Bug
    * [PLXCOMP-163] - ZipFile leaks memory into native heap
    * [PLXCOMP-175] - Revert to old groupId

** Improvement
    * [PLXCOMP-129] - Archiver should not print info messages for
duplicate directories.
    * [PLXCOMP-169] - IO & Archiver forget to raise filename in case of an error



Enjoy,

-The Maven team