[ANN] Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.3 Released

[Dennis Lundberg <de...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.3

The Checkstyle plugin generates report regarding the code style used by
the developers.

Important note: This version of the plugin uses Checkstyle 4.4. Version
2.3 will be the last version of Maven Checkstyle Plugin that will run on
Java 1.4. The next version of Maven Checkstyle Plugin will be upgraded
to Checkstyle 5 and will therefor require Java 5 to run.

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

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

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.3</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven 2.x Checkstyle Plugin - Version 2.3

** Improvement
    * [MCHECKSTYLE-101] - Skip should skip everything including the
Velocity initialization
    * [MCHECKSTYLE-110] - option to output violations to the console
when using chekstyle:check
    * [MCHECKSTYLE-114] - Add an ASF-compliant source release assembly

** New Feature
    * [MCHECKSTYLE-113] - Set the number of accepted violations for
checkstyle:check

** Task
    * [MCHECKSTYLE-98] - Maven Checkstyle is too strict and not follow
Maven's team conventions!


Enjoy,

-The Maven team