[ANN] Maven Release Plugin 2.0 Released

[Dennis Lundberg <de...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Release
Plugin, version 2.0. This release also includes Maven Release Manager,
version 2.0.

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of
repetitive, manual work.

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

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

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.0

** Bug
    * [MRELEASE-3] - release:prepare should not require multimodule
artifacts to be in the local repository
    * [MRELEASE-278] - release:clean doesn't clean up after release:branch
    * [MRELEASE-322] - Unable to set the working directory for projects
where the master pom isn't at the root of the project
    * [MRELEASE-327] - Is branchName really optional for release:branch
? If so, what is the default?
    * [MRELEASE-336] - unable to release:prepare flat hierarchy project
    * [MRELEASE-383] - svn inconsistent line ending style
    * [MRELEASE-387] - command line versions don't seem to work on
release:branch
    * [MRELEASE-389] - Properties releaseVersion and developmentVersion
are not read correctly during release:prepare (eventually release:perform)
    * [MRELEASE-433] - Add parameter remoteTagging to release:branch (to
prevent issue with svn > 1.5.0)
    * [MRELEASE-442] - scm tag phase ignores custom message (need to use
scm 1.3)
    * [MRELEASE-452] - allowTimestampedSnapshots=true still fails with
snapshot dependencies
    * [MRELEASE-460] - Please upgrade to JDOM 1.1;  current JDOM 1.0
contains a bug in parsing comments starting with hyphen
    * [MRELEASE-481] - prepare goal  no longer errors on subversion files
    * [MRELEASE-493] - Prepare step doesn't stop if there are modified
local files
    * [MRELEASE-502] - fix the equals() and hashCode() functions in
release-descriptor.mdo
    * [MRELEASE-515] - release:prepare eats the root cause of the exception
    * [MRELEASE-520] - A comma separated list of release goals causes
the release:perform goal to fail

** Improvement
    * [MRELEASE-225] - release should support multi-module project with
sibling subprojects
    * [MRELEASE-261] - release:prepare should support flat directory
multi-module projects
    * [MRELEASE-291] - FAQ entry explaining how to release a parent pom
without releasing it's modules
    * [MRELEASE-324] - There should be a way to update POM version
numbers without tagging/branching
    * [MRELEASE-377] - Missing releaseVersion parameter in
release:branch goal
    * [MRELEASE-422] - Output the resulting tag name or branch name
during dryRun
    * [MRELEASE-423] - Wrong goal specified to generate a release pom
    * [MRELEASE-451] - CLONE -scm:tag with scmCommentPrefix
    * [MRELEASE-461] - Add a mojo parameter for using the new remote
tagging for svn scm provider (to prevent issue with svn > 1.5.0) in
branch mojo
    * [MRELEASE-475] - Don't print stack trace when release:branch finds
uncommitted files.
    * [MRELEASE-505] - Upgrade to scm 1.3

** New Feature
    * [MRELEASE-372] - add branchBase optional parameter for
release:branch goal
    * [MRELEASE-501] - create the possibility for performing a local
checkout instead a clean checkout from the upstream repository for DSCMs
    * [MRELEASE-508] - Add TFS support

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

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