[ANN] Apache Maven Plugin Tools (including Maven Plugin Plugin) 3.3 Released

[Hervé Boutemy <hb...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 
Plugin Tools, version 3.3

The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to be able to produce 
Maven Plugins in scripting languages and to generate rebarbative content like 
descriptor, help and documentation.

The Maven Plugin Plugin is used to create a Maven plugin descriptor for any 
Mojo's found in the source tree, to include in the JAR. It is also used to 
generate report files for the Mojos as well as for updating the plugin 
registry, the artifact metadata and generating a generic help goal.

http://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/
http://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/maven-plugin-plugin/

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.3</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven Plugin Tools - Version 3.3

** Bug
    * [MPLUGIN-191] - plugin-info.html is not created
    * [MPLUGIN-234] - Extreme amounts of debug logging
    * [MPLUGIN-235] - Doc example incorrectly states that plexus-utils is 
needed as a dependency
    * [MPLUGIN-236] - Value for Mojo's 'defaultPhase' parameter is incorrectly 
a string in examples
    * [MPLUGIN-239] - Execute goal does not passes from mojos.xml 
pluginMetadata
    * [MPLUGIN-242] - NullPointerException in MojoClassVisitor.visit()
    * [MPLUGIN-244] - Help mojo generates Javadoc, which is not accepted by 
JDK 8 doclint
    * [MPLUGIN-245] - @Parameter property names are not written to the plugin-
help.xml file
    * [MPLUGIN-248] - XML-Namespace in ITs for ant-based mojos are wrong.
    * [MPLUGIN-255] - Generated HelpMojo doesn't close resource stream
    * [MPLUGIN-258] - IT failures with Jdk 8 (EA) 
    * [MPLUGIN-260] - Plugin that uses annotations in Java 8 source can't 
generate descriptor
    * [MPLUGIN-262] - Generated HelpMojo doesn't display default values and 
user properties.

** Improvement
    * [MPLUGIN-237] - JavaDoc WARNING on generated HelpMojo class.
    * [MPLUGIN-246] - Clarify that super class must also use annotations
    * [MPLUGIN-264] - Allow other packaging types

** New Feature
    * [MPLUGIN-259] - @Parameter name="xxx" to set bean property name different 
from class' field

** Task
    * [MPLUGIN-233] - remove InstanciationStrategy enum from annotations
    * [MPLUGIN-265] - remove deprecated API since introduction of 
PluginToolsRequest

** Wish
    * [MPLUGIN-249] - give snippets to show use of expressions to get Maven 
objects
    * [MPLUGIN-250] - since element is not in version 1.0.0 of plugin-
metadata: should create a new version of the descriptor
    * [MPLUGIN-257] - deprecate classical Maven objects as components
    * [MPLUGIN-261] - sort goals in generated plugin.xml

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team