[ANN] Maven Surefire Plugin 2.12.3 Released

[Kristian Rosenvold <kr...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Surefire Plugin, version 2.12.3.

This release includes the maven-surefire-plugin, which executes the
unit tests of an application, the maven-surefire-report-plugin, which
parses surefire/failsafe test results and renders them to DOXIA
creating the web interface version of the test results, as well as the
maven-failsafe-plugin, which executes the integration tests of an
application.

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

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

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


<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.12.3</version>
</plugin>




Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 2.12.3



** Bug
    * [SUREFIRE-824] - SpecificTestClassFilterTest currently fails on windows
    * [SUREFIRE-848] - NPE in
org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.report.AbstractTextReporter
    * [SUREFIRE-849] - Properites groups and excludedGroups do not
enable JUnit47 provider
    * [SUREFIRE-857] - Non-ASCII source and name in ReportEntry are
escaped unicode on fork.
    * [SUREFIRE-862] - excludedGroups property does not work with JUnit
    * [SUREFIRE-878] - redirectTestOutputToFile is empty when text is
written to output too early (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner)
    * [SUREFIRE-888] - <reportFormat>plain</reportFormat> should
inject "\n" after per-method test line items in console & files
    * [SUREFIRE-901] - Failsafe verify fails if no
failsafe-summary.xml can be found
    * [SUREFIRE-906] - Sometimes get NullPointerException in forked process
    * [SUREFIRE-907] - IllegalArgumentException from
ThreadPoolExecutor.<init> in
surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.runSuitesForkPerTestSet



** Improvement
    * [SUREFIRE-899] - Add support for TestNG "order-by-instances" property


Enjoy,

-The Maven team