[ANN] Release Maven Help Plugin 3.0.0 released

[Michael Osipov <mi...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven 
Help Plugin version 3.0.0.

This module generates browsable HTML pages from Java source code.

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/

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

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


Release Notes - Maven Help Plugin - Version 3.0.0

** Bug
     * [MPH-53] - mvn help:describe returns the version that is 
specified in metadata instead of  the one in the parent pom
     * [MPH-87] - help:effective-pom/effective-settings uses platform 
encoding and garbles non-ASCII characters, emits invalid XML
     * [MPH-97] - [Patch] maven-help-plugin does not build with latest 
version of maven-plugin-testing-harness
     * [MPH-99] - Evaluate has no output in quiet mode
     * [MPH-105] - Effective pom aggregation is not triggered
     * [MPH-107] - Mojos use inconsistent line endings throughout
     * [MPH-108] - Patch for MPH-72 not fully applied
     * [MPH-110] - Cannot run ITs successfully
     * [MPH-111] - IT 'effective-pom_properties' fails if run with 
-Dinvoker.mergeUserSettings
     * [MPH-114] - Goal fails with “Unable to get the POM for the artifact”
     * [MPH-119] - The "artifact" parameter is not taken into account 
with Maven 3
     * [MPH-121] - incorrect text in help:describe for cmd
     * [MPH-123] - all-profiles does not show right active status

** Improvement
     * [MPH-106] - add gav parameter to calculate effective pom for any 
gav, not only reactor
     * [MPH-109] - Use ISO 8601 date format for the remaining goals
     * [MPH-116] - Printout the information if a goal is a report goal 
or not
     * [MPH-120] - Migrate plugin to Maven 3.0
     * [MPH-124] - Show parameter aliases in describe goal

** Task
     * [MPH-103] - Remove unused dependency maven-monitor
     * [MPH-112] - Upgrade to Commons Lang3
     * [MPH-126] - Require Java 7
     * [MPH-132] - Drop parameter 'medium'
     * [MPH-133] - Drop deprecated alias 'full'
     * [MPH-134] - Drop deprecated alias 'mojo'

** Dependency upgrade
     * [MPH-102] - Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27
     * [MPH-104] - Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
     * [MPH-117] - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22
     * [MPH-118] - Upgrade maven-plugins to version 30
     * [MPH-125] - Upgrade parent to 31
     * [MPH-127] - Upgrade Maven  Artifact Transfer to 0.9.1
     * [MPH-128] - Upgrade Maven Reporting Exec to 1.4
     * [MPH-129] - Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.1.0
     * [MPH-130] - Upgrade XStream to 1.4.7
     * [MPH-131] - Ugprade Commons Lang to 3.7


Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team