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| layout: post |
| status: PUBLISHED |
| published: true |
| title: Maven Help Plugin Version 3.0.0 Released |
| id: ad7d2eea-f8d9-470b-ac7e-554464689624 |
| date: '2018-03-18 09:42:47 -0400' |
| categories: maven |
| tags: |
| - maven-plugin |
| permalink: maven/entry/maven-help-plugin-version-3 |
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| <div class="entry-content"> |
| <p>The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the<br /> |
| <a href="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/">Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.0.0</a></p> |
| <p>The Maven Help Plugin is used to get relative information about a project or<br /> |
| the system. It can be used to get a description of a particular plugin,<br /> |
| including the plugin’s goals with their parameters and component requirements,<br /> |
| the effective POM and effective settings of the current build, and the profiles<br /> |
| applied to the current project being built.</p> |
| <p>You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:</p> |
| <figure class='code'> |
| <figcaption><span></span></figcaption> |
| <div class="highlight"> |
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| <td class='code'> |
| <pre><code class='xml'><span class='line'><span class="nt"><plugin></span>
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| </span><span class='line'> <span class="nt"><groupId></span>org.apache.maven.plugins<span class="nt"></groupId></span>
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| </span><span class='line'> <span class="nt"><artifactId></span>maven-help-plugin<span class="nt"></artifactId></span>
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| </span><span class='line'> <span class="nt"><version></span>3.0.0<span class="nt"></version></span>
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| </span><span class='line'><span class="nt"></plugin></span>
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| </span></code></pre> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| </div> |
| </figure> |
| <p>You can download the appropriate <a href="https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/download.cgi">sources etc. from the download page</a>.</p> |
| <p><!-- more --></p> |
| <p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317522&version=12330788">Release Notes – Maven Help Plugin – Version 3.0.0</a></p> |
| <p>Bugs:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-53">MPH-53</a> – mvn help:describe returns the version that is specified in metadata instead of the one in the parent pom</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-87">MPH-87</a> – help:effective-pom/effective-settings uses platform encoding and garbles non-ASCII characters, emits invalid XML</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-97">MPH-97</a> – [Patch] maven-help-plugin does not build with latest version of maven-plugin-testing-harness</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-99">MPH-99</a> – Evaluate has no output in quiet mode</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-105">MPH-105</a> – Effective pom aggregation is not triggered</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-107">MPH-107</a> – Mojos use inconsistent line endings throughout</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-108">MPH-108</a> – Patch for MPH-72 not fully applied</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-110">MPH-110</a> – Cannot run ITs successfully</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-111">MPH-111</a> – IT ‘effective-pom_properties’ fails if run with -Dinvoker.mergeUserSettings</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-114">MPH-114</a> – Goal fails with “Unable to get the POM for the artifact”</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-119">MPH-119</a> – The “artifact” parameter is not taken into account with Maven 3</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-121">MPH-121</a> – incorrect text in help:describe for cmd</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-123">MPH-123</a> – all-profiles does not show right active status</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Improvements:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-106">MPH-106</a> – add gav parameter to calculate effective pom for any gav, not only reactor</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-109">MPH-109</a> – Use ISO 8601 date format for the remaining goals</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-116">MPH-116</a> – Printout the information if a goal is a report goal or not</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-120">MPH-120</a> – Migrate plugin to Maven 3.0</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-124">MPH-124</a> – Show parameter aliases in describe goal</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Tasks:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-103">MPH-103</a> – Remove unused dependency maven-monitor</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-112">MPH-112</a> – Upgrade to Commons Lang3</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-126">MPH-126</a> – Require Java 7</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-132">MPH-132</a> – Drop parameter ‘medium’</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-133">MPH-133</a> – Drop deprecated alias ‘full’</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-134">MPH-134</a> – Drop deprecated alias ‘mojo’</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Dependency upgrades:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-102">MPH-102</a> – Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-104">MPH-104</a> – Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-117">MPH-117</a> – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-118">MPH-118</a> – Upgrade maven-plugins to version 30</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-125">MPH-125</a> – Upgrade parent to 31</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-127">MPH-127</a> – Upgrade Maven Artifact Transfer to 0.9.1</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-128">MPH-128</a> – Upgrade Maven Reporting Exec to 1.4</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-129">MPH-129</a> – Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.1.0</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-130">MPH-130</a> – Upgrade XStream to 1.4.7</li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-131">MPH-131</a> – Ugprade Commons Lang to 3.7</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Enjoy,</p> |
| <p>-The Apache Maven team</p> |
| </div> |
