[ANN] Maven Dependency Plugin 2.4 Released

[Carlos Sanchez <ca...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Dependency Plugin, version 2.4

Provides utility goals to work with dependencies like copying,
unpacking, analyzing, resolving and many more.

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

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.4</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.4

Bug
* [MDEP-324] Use fixed 2.0.1 plexus-io to work with java7
* [MDEP-306] Unpack does not handle space in includes
* [MDEP-299] dependency:get -DrepositoryUrl is mentioned wrong in help

Improvement
* [MDEP-333] Allow setting the repository id and layout for multiple
repositories
* [MDEP-304] Make repositoryUrl optional for dependency:get

New Feature
* [MDEP-334] Add a destination parameter to the get mojo
* [MDEP-331] Add to purge-local-repository goal ability to clean only snapshots


Enjoy,

-The Maven team