[ANN] Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 Released

[Hervé Boutemy <hb...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven 
Dependency Plugin, version 2.8

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>2.8</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin - Version 2.8

** Bug
    * [MDEP-312] - copyPom with useRepositoryLayout copies pom to wrong 
location
    * [MDEP-374] - dependency:tree -Dverbose isn't verbose anymore
    * [MDEP-379] - useSubDirectoryPerArtifact creates folder with wrong format
    * [MDEP-395] - get doesn't copy transitive dependencies to output 
directory
    * [MDEP-407] - add support for Maven 3.1-A1/Eclipse Aether 0.9-M2 to 
dependency:tree
    * [MDEP-411] - copy-dependencies with useRepositoryLayout and copyPoms 
copies the poms twice
    * [MDEP-416] - dependency:copy-dependencies addParentPoms causes NPE with 
Maven 2

** Improvement
    * [MDEP-128] - Support ability to specify multiple "includeScope" 
parameters
    * [MDEP-414] - Add option to sort output of dependency:resolve/list
    * [MDEP-415] - Add option to include parent poms in dependency:resolve 
output

** New Feature
    * [MDEP-412] - add an option to copy dependencies with their parent poms + 
parent poms of current project

** Wish
    * [MDEP-321] - Remove final declaration from class UnpackMojo

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team

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