[ANN] Maven Dependency Plugin 2.3 Released

[Stephen Connolly <st...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Dependency Plugin, version 2.3

This plugin is used to copy and unpack artifacts and dependencies. It
also provides visualization and optimization tools for your project
dependencies.

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

The main change in this plugin from version 2.2 is that the "copy" and
"unpack" goals will now resolve from the reactor in Maven 2.x.
Initially when these goals were added to the dependency plugin, they
did not resolve artifacts from the reactor. With Maven 3, however, the
plugin would resolve artifacts from the reactor. The fix for MDEP-316
ensures that there is consistent behaviour when running with both
Maven 2.x and Maven 3 by having the "copy" and "unpack" goals alway
search for artifacts from the reactor before failing through to the
local, and subsequently remote repositories. The side-effect of this
is that some builds which may have been forced to set the release
plugin's preparationGoals to "clean install" in order to be able to
release, will now be able to revert to the preferred "clean verify".

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.3</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin - Version 2.3

** Bug
    * [MDEP-316] - dependency:copy and dependency:unpack behave
differently with M2 and M3 (should always search the reactor for
artifacts)

** Improvement
    * [MDEP-145] - Outputting dependency resolution/tree in a well
known _machine readable_ output format
    * [MDEP-265] - Add classifier option for dependency:get
    * [MDEP-315] - Add pt_BR localization

Enjoy,

-The Maven team