[ANN] Apache Maven Surefire Plugin 3.0.0-M5 Released

[Tibor Digana <ti...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M5.

The release contains 40 bug fixes.
Again we received contributions from the community in the form of bug
reports and bug fixes.
Thank you and keep them coming!

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-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>3.0.0-M5</version>
</plugin>

or for failsafe:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
</plugin>

or for surefire-report:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
</plugin>


You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:
https://maven.apache.org/surefire/download.cgi

        Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.0.0-M5


Bug

   - [SUREFIRE-1570 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1570>]
   - Maven-fail-safe doesn't put testing JPMS module on module path
   - [SUREFIRE-1695 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1695>]
   - Support multiple inheritance of @Categories
   - [SUREFIRE-1719 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1719>]
   - Race condition results in "VM crash or System.exit called?" failure
   - [SUREFIRE-1721 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1721>]
   - fixed typo in JavaDoc for Failsafe: mvn test
   -Dsurefire.enableProcessChecker=all
   - [SUREFIRE-1725 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1725>]
   - Surefire in JUnit Vintage mode distributes tests very unevenly between
   forks, causing poor parallelism
   - [SUREFIRE-1741 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1741>]
   - Exceptions in parameterized test sources are ignored
   - [SUREFIRE-1746 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1746>]
   - Dependencies for dynamic provider contain Maven artifacts from the MOJO
   plugin
   - [SUREFIRE-1748 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1748>]
   - JUnit 5 Assertions.fail() breaks reporting
   - [SUREFIRE-1749 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1749>]
   - Correct useSystemClassloader used in message
   - [SUREFIRE-1759 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1759>]
   - NullPointerException from RunEntryStatisticsMap#serialize when there's a
   class-level @Ignore annotation
   - [SUREFIRE-1762 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1762>]
   - skipAfterFailureCount>0 with testng 7.1.0 resulting in
   java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
   org.testng.TestNG.addListener(Lorg/testng/ITestListener;)V
   - [SUREFIRE-1782 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1782>]
   - Configured Environment Variables do not take effect unless also added to
   excludedEnvironmentVariables
   - [SUREFIRE-1783 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1783>]
   - Fork JVM defined by Toolchain should not inherit JAVA_HOME from Maven
   process
   - [SUREFIRE-1784 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1784>]
   - Fork JVM defined by jvm parameter should not inherit JAVA_HOME from Maven
   process
   - [SUREFIRE-1797 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1797>]
   - Surefire report with parameterized tests contain all names of test the
   same

New Feature

   - [SUREFIRE-1234 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1234>]
   - Allow to configure JVM for tests by referencing a toolchain entry
   - [SUREFIRE-1516 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1516>]
   - Should surefire specialize test runner when test isolation (i.e., fork)
   is needed?
   - [SUREFIRE-1658 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1658>]
   - TCP/IP Channel for forked Surefire JVM. Extensions API and SPI.
   Polymorphism for remote and local process communication.
   - [SUREFIRE-1744 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1744>]
   - Enable system-out for successfully passed tests as well
   - [SUREFIRE-1766 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1766>]
   - Surefire does not display TestNG data provider values on command line

Improvement

   - [SUREFIRE-1378 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1378>]
   - Nice to have systemPropertiesFile configurable by user property
   - [SUREFIRE-1728 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1728>]
   - maven.test.failure.ignore: differentiate between test failure and timeout
   - [SUREFIRE-1729 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1729>]
   - Run Order / JUnit5 supported in the Feature Matrix + tests
   - [SUREFIRE-1733 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1733>]
   - Surefire and Failsafe JPMS additions for JUnit 5.x execution
   - [SUREFIRE-1740 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1740>]
   - Prerequisite implementation for SUREFIRE-1658
   - [SUREFIRE-1758 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1758>]
   - JUnit Platform provider isn't mentioned in the docu about groups and
   excludeGroups
   - [SUREFIRE-1770 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1770>]
   - make build Reproducible
   - [SUREFIRE-1780 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1780>]
   - Print JPMS errors from native stream of the fork JVM
   - [SUREFIRE-1787 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1787>]
   - Support multiple runners (JUnit4, TestNG, other) and their API in JUnit5
   Provider
   - [SUREFIRE-1793 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1793>]
   - Change the Java package of surefire-api to the distinct package
   org.apache.maven.surefire.api
   - [SUREFIRE-1796 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1796>]
   - The session of TCP channel should be authenticated

Task

   - [SUREFIRE-1742 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1742>]
   - Updated JUnit 4.12 to JUnit 4.13 in the unit/IT tests.
   - [SUREFIRE-1781 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1781>]
   - Log a warning if forkCount = 0
   - [SUREFIRE-1788 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1788>]
   - Unhandled native logs in SurefireForkChannel
   - [SUREFIRE-1791 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1791>]
   - Documentation and the integration test for Spock/Groovy with JUnit5

Dependency upgrade

   - [SUREFIRE-1754 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1754>]
   - upgrade Doxia Sitetools to 1.9.2 to remove dependency on Struts
   - [SUREFIRE-1769 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1769>]
   - Upgrade Plexus Java to 1.0.5
   - [SUREFIRE-1774 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1774>]
   - Upgrade Maven Parent to Version 34
   - [SUREFIRE-1775 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1775>]
   - Upgrade Commons Compress to Version 1.20
   - [SUREFIRE-1777 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1777>]
   - Upgrade Fluido to Version 1.9


Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team