Apache Maven 2.0 Alpha 2 Released

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the second alpha release
of Maven 2.0.

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

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.

This release includes 76 bug fixes and enhancements
(http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10500&fixfor=11020)
since the first release on 8 April.

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:

    * Basic site generation
    * Improved error handling
    * Automatic plugin updates
    * Published Mojo and Plugin API
    * Inclusion of Ant tasks for Maven 2.0

This release is expected to be much more architecturally stable, making
early adoption a possiblity. At this point, there are still only the
core plugins available.

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/

- The Apache Maven team



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