[ANN] Felix maven-bundle-plugin 2.4.0 Released

[Stuart McCulloch <mc...@gmail.com>]

The Apache Felix team is pleased to announce the release of maven-bundle-plugin 2.4.0 which uses the latest release of bnd (2.1.0)

This is a plugin for building OSGi bundles in Maven by using the bnd library from Peter Kriens:

  http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html

  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/releases/maven-bundle-plugin-2.4.0/doc/site/index.html

  http://www.aqute.biz/Bnd/Bnd

  https://github.com/bndtools/bnd

This release is available from http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi and Maven:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.0</version>
  </plugin>

Release Notes:

** Bug
    * [FELIX-3293] - Exception while creating empty fragment bundles with version 2.3.6
    * [FELIX-3349] - wrong bundle manifest contents in some cases
    * [FELIX-3352] - Maven Bundle Plugin ignores resource properties configured inside <filters> section
    * [FELIX-3407] - Imports are missed for generics
    * [FELIX-3497] - Wrong artifact type attached as a secondary artifact when project packaging is set to "pom"
    * [FELIX-3582] - finalName not properly populated in maven-bundle-plugin with buildnumber-maven-plugin
    * [FELIX-3585] - Dependencies with classes or resources in the default package cannot be embedded
    * [FELIX-3601] - Incorrect namespace in component XML for DS Annotations
    * [FELIX-3619] - "IOException: Failed to delete repository.xml while trying to rename" in maven-bundle-plugin
    * [FELIX-3630] - Packages exported by bundle are (re)-imported with incorrect version
    * [FELIX-3638] - Missing package import for annotation default value
    * [FELIX-3772] - maven-bundle-plugin does not scan blueprint in workspace outside default location
    * [FELIX-3973] - Exclusion from {local-packages} doesn't work anymore
    * [FELIX-4005] - Maven Bundle Plugin fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, "Invalid Class File" errors with Java 8 features
    * [FELIX-4017] - @ProviderType does not work (bnd "provide:=true" annotation?)

** Improvement
    * [FELIX-3277] - Support BND Service Component generation
    * [FELIX-3602] - The bundle plugin should generate the blueprint header with the file locations

** Task
    * [FELIX-4118] - Release the Maven Bundle Plugin version 2.4.0

** Wish
    * [FELIX-4067] - Old BND used causes problems during annotations processing

Enjoy!

-The Felix team