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Posted to dev@maven.apache.org by br...@apache.org on 2005/09/16 19:28:54 UTC
svn commit: r289613 -
/maven/components/trunk/maven-site/src/site/apt/release-notes.apt
Author: brett
Date: Fri Sep 16 10:28:49 2005
New Revision: 289613
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=289613&view=rev
Log:
new release notes
Modified:
maven/components/trunk/maven-site/src/site/apt/release-notes.apt
Modified: maven/components/trunk/maven-site/src/site/apt/release-notes.apt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/maven/components/trunk/maven-site/src/site/apt/release-notes.apt?rev=289613&r1=289612&r2=289613&view=diff
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--- maven/components/trunk/maven-site/src/site/apt/release-notes.apt (original)
+++ maven/components/trunk/maven-site/src/site/apt/release-notes.apt Fri Sep 16 10:28:49 2005
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
------
-Release Notes - Maven 2.0 Alpha 3
+Release Notes - Maven 2.0 Beta 1
------
Brett Porter
------
-23 June 2005
+16 September 2005
------
- The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the third alpha release of Maven 2.0.
+ The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the beta 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 <<{{{http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10500&styleName=Html&version=11021} 83 bug fixes and enhancements}}>>
- since the previous release on 13 May.
+ This release includes <<{{{http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10500&styleName=Html&version=11040} 206 bug fixes and enhancements}}>>
+ since the previous release on 26 June.
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
@@ -23,25 +23,37 @@
The main new features in this release are:
- * Improved dependency management
+ * Further improved dependency management: full support for dependency ranges
- * Build profiles for environment specific settings and dependencies
+ * Reactor project aggregation support and summary
- * Finalised build lifecycle
+ * File system discovery of POMs and artifacts to reduce build time and use of local and remote repositories
- * Proper handling of derived dependency type such as sources, javadocs and ejb clients
+ * Repository metadata support
- * Beanshell plugin support
+ * System scope dependency support
- * Improved reporting support, including internationalisation.
+ * Eclipse compiler support, ability to fork compiler
- * Improvements to the Ant tasks
+ * Ability to automatically bundle sources and javadoc with deployments
- * Better plugin management, with the ability to select specific versions for use
+ * Maven 1.x repository support
- * Various plugin improvements
+ * Allow use of setters in mojos for field population
- This release is very near to being feature complete, and the next release will be a feature complete beta-1.
+ * Ability to separate snapshot repository
+
+ * Ability to set minimum Maven version requirement for projects and plugins
+
+ * Build extension support
+
+ * Bugfixes and enhancements
+
+ This release is considered stable with a feature set comparable to Maven 1.0. Further betas and the final are expected
+ to be backwards compatible, with a primary goal of bugfixes, usability improvements, and documentation.
+
+ A large number of plugins will be released in the coming week to match the primary Maven 1.0 plugin set.
+ See {{{http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Maven+Plugin+Matrix} Maven Plugin Matrix} for more information.
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