[ANN] Apache Felix maven-bundle-plugin 2.3.6 released

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

The Apache Felix team is pleased to announce the release of maven-bundle-plugin 2.3.6

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-2.3.6/doc/site/index.html

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

The 2.3.6 release is available from http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi and Maven central:

 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.3.6</version>
 </dependency>

Release Notes:

** Bug
   * [FELIX-3031] - maven3 deployment fails where maven2 works
   * [FELIX-3037] - Plugin does not work with Java 5
   * [FELIX-3058] - maven-bundle-plugin 2.3.5 incompatible with maven-source-plugin (regression)
   * [FELIX-3073] - can't deploy snapshot bundle to remote OBR
   * [FELIX-3173] - Local OBR install failes when there is a space in the full path
   * [FELIX-3185] - Negative Embed-Dependency clauses aren't handled correctly
   * [FELIX-3188] - [PATCH] exception org.apache.maven.project.artifact.InvalidDependencyVersionException has already been caught
   * [FELIX-3206] - Restore the BND analyzer approach which creates a MANIFEST.MF based on the contents of the jar
   * [FELIX-3209] - Make sure the properties passed to BND only include string values
   * [FELIX-3222] - [PATCH] build fails with "unreported exception"
   * [FELIX-3238] - Unable to filter out classes from identical package in a dependency

** Improvement
   * [FELIX-2872] - Provide a way to have an easier to read manifest
   * [FELIX-3061] - improvements to Embed-Dependency logic to allow better m2e integration
   * [FELIX-3092] - Support relative paths in "urlTemplate" parameter of "bundle:index" goal in maven bundle plugin

** New Feature
   * [FELIX-3165] - Add an option to the manifest goal that will copy any BND generated resources to the target folder
   * [FELIX-3208] - Provide default value for sourcepath when using BND -sources=true
   * [FELIX-3210] - Maven bundle plugin remote-clean goal without user confirmation

Enjoy!

-The Apache Felix team
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