[ANNOUNCE] Archiva 1.2-M1 Released!

[Maria Odea Ching <oc...@apache.org>]

The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.2-M1

Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps
taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven,
Continuum, and ANT.

Archiva offers several capabilities, amongst which remote repository
proxying, security access management, build artifact storage, delivery,
browsing, indexing and usage reporting, extensible scanning functionality...
and many more!

The latest release is now available here:
http://archiva.apache.org/download.html

If you have any questions, please consult:
 - the web site: http://archiva.apache.org
- the archiva-user mailing list: http://archiva.apache.org/mail-lists.html

Change Log for Archiva 1.2-M1
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** Bug
    * [MRM-514] - Archiva cannot compile and pass tests on JDK 1.6
    * [MRM-615] - When scanning, Archiva doesn't resolve
properties/variables of POMs in managed repositories
    * [MRM-620] - pom.xml that inherit version from parent show up in
reports as "has an invalid project model"
    * [MRM-717] - Performance affected using Archiva Repository
    * [MRM-844] - "Unable to create ArchivaArtifact with empty version" in
dependency tree.
    * [MRM-868] - Include sources bundle during deployment (in
release:perform)
    * [MRM-876] - Archiva does not proxy .asc files
    * [MRM-882] - checksum validation reports invalid checksum when checksum
is correct
    * [MRM-885] - incorrect metadata generated from merge
    * [MRM-925] - Access to maven-metadata.xml without "groupId" fails when
accessed via a repository group
    * [MRM-978] - showArtifactLink tag is broken
    * [MRM-981] - artifactIds with numeric characters aren't found in
advanced search
    * [MRM-986] - archiva.xml is saved in home directory instead of
$ARCHIVA_BASE/conf

** Improvement
    * [MRM-541] - convenient way to take Archiva proxies "offline"
    * [MRM-906] - Proxy repository operations should not be done in place
    * [MRM-907] - Remove
VersionedReference/ProjectReference/ArtifactReference from
RepositoryProxyConnectors
    * [MRM-946] - Upgrade to redback 1.1.1
    * [MRM-948] - allow plugins to handle deletion of artifacts through
repository purge
    * [MRM-952] - Patch for several issues while processing poms (effective
model, expressions resolving, storing to database)
    * [MRM-966] - Update documentation for search feature
    * [MRM-977] - Upgrade from Webwork 2 to Struts 2
    * [MRM-985] - Document usage of boolean NOT in quick search
    * [MRM-987] - switch from prototype to jquery
    * [MRM-988] - remove "dav:" from the POM snippet in repositories page

** New Feature
    * [MRM-90] - add advanced search options
    * [MRM-124] - web service interface

** Task
    * [MRM-84] - Basic statistics


Thanks,
The Apache Archiva team