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title: Apache Maven Help Plugin Version 3.0.1 Released
id: 5e8cb1a1-2037-49de-8376-6e9c5396a799
date: '2018-03-28 17:29:11 -0400'
categories: maven
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- maven-plugin
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<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 3.0.1</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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s plugin configuration:</p>
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<pre><code class='xml'><span class='line'><span class="nt"><plugin></span>
</span><span class='line'> <span class="nt"><groupId></span>org.apache.maven.plugins<span class="nt"></groupId></span>
</span><span class='line'> <span class="nt"><artifactId></span>maven-help-plugin<span class="nt"></artifactId></span>
</span><span class='line'> <span class="nt"><version></span>3.0.1<span class="nt"></version></span>
</span><span class='line'><span class="nt"></plugin></span>
</span></code></pre>
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<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&amp;version=12342960">Release Notes &ndash; Maven Help Plugin &ndash; Version 3.0.1</a></p>
<p>Bugs:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-135">MPH-135</a> &ndash; help:effective-pom crashes with NPE in multi module builds with -Doutput set</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-139">MPH-139</a> &ndash; Invalid default namespace set for effective settings</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-140">MPH-140</a> &ndash; Multiple XML declarations written</li>
</ul>
<p>Tasks:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-137">MPH-137</a> &ndash; Use JDOM&rsquo;s PrettyFormatter throughout</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-138">MPH-138</a> &ndash; Drop AbstractEffectiveMojo#addMavenNamespace()</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-141">MPH-141</a> &ndash; Use non-deprecated field in DateFormatUtils</li>
</ul>
<p>Dependency upgrade:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-136">MPH-136</a> &ndash; Upgrade JDOM to 1.1.3</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy,</p>
<p>-The Apache Maven team</p>
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