[ANN] Maven Dependency Plugin 2.5 Released

[Hervé Boutemy <hb...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Dependency 
Plugin, version 2.5

The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can 
copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified 
location.

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


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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.5

** Bug
    * [MDEP-297] - Documentation Problem of an attribute
    * [MDEP-352] - Attributes for ArtifactItems referenced in 
AbstractFromConfigurationMojo.java are incorrect (documentation patch attached)
    * [MDEP-356] - maven dependency plugin should use maven 3 dependency 
resolver, aether

** Improvement
    * [MDEP-286] - Typo in documentation
    * [MDEP-339] - tree mojo doesn't work with maven3
    * [MDEP-344] - Documentation for dependency:tree goal is incorrect
    * [MDEP-357] - use plugins annotations

** Task
    * [MDEP-363] - The plugin should not write debug messages to 'System.out'.

Enjoy,

-The Maven team