[ANN] Apache Maven Surefire Plugin 3.0.0-M2 Released

[Tibor Digana <ti...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M2.

The release contains 15 bug fixes.
Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports
and bug fixes.
Thank you and keep them coming!

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M2</version>
</plugin>

or for failsafe:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M2</version>
</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M2</version>
</plugin>


You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:
https://maven.apache.org/surefire/download.cgi

        Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.0.0-M2

Bug

   - [SUREFIRE-1568 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1568>]
   - Versions 2.21 and higher doesn't work with junit-platform for Java 9
   module
   - [SUREFIRE-1593 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1593>]
   - 3.0.0-M1 produces invalid code sources on Windows
   - [SUREFIRE-1602 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1602>]
   - Surefire fails loading class ForkedBooter when using a sub-directory pom
   file and a local maven repo
   - [SUREFIRE-1605 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1605>]
   - NoClassDefFoundError (RunNotifier) with JDK 11
   - [SUREFIRE-1606 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1606>]
   - maven-shared-utils must not be on provider's classpath

New Feature

   - [SUREFIRE-1531 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1531>]
   - Option to switch-off Java 9 modules

Improvement

   - [SUREFIRE-1590 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1590>]
   - Deploy multiple versions of Report XSD
   - [SUREFIRE-1591 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1591>]
   - Java 1.7 feature Diamonds replaced Generics
   - [SUREFIRE-1594 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1594>]
   - Java 1.7 feature try-catch - multiple exceptions in one catch
   - [SUREFIRE-1595 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1595>]
   - Java 1.7 feature System.lineSeparator()
   - [SUREFIRE-1597 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1597>]
   - ModularClasspathForkConfiguration with debug logs (@args file and its
   path on file system)

Test

   - [SUREFIRE-1596 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1596>]
   - Unnecessary check JAVA_RECENT == JAVA_1_7 in unit tests
   - [SUREFIRE-1598 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1598>]
   - Fixed typo in assertion statement in integration test
   Surefire855AllowFailsafeUseArtifactFileIT

Task

   - [SUREFIRE-1600 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1600>]
   - Surefire Project using surefire:2.12.4 is not fully able to work with JDK
   10+ on internal build system. Therefore surefire-shadefire should go with
   Surefire:3.0.0-M2.
   - [SUREFIRE-1607 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1607>]
   - Roadmap on Project Site



Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team