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title: Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.1.0
date: '2018-06-09T13:49:29+00:00'
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<div class="entry-content"><p>The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the
<a href="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/">Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.1.0</a></p>
<p>The Maven Help Plugin is used to get relative information about a project or
the system. It can be used to get a description of a particular plugin,
including the plugin&rsquo;s goals with their parameters and component requirements,
the effective POM and effective settings of the current build, and the profiles
applied to the current project being built.</p>
<p>Important Notes since Version 3.0.0</p>
<ul>
<li>Maven 3+ only</li>
<li>JDK 7 minimum requirement</li>
</ul>
<p>You should specify the version in your project&rsquo;s plugin configuration:</p>
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<span class='line-number'>2</span>
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</pre></td><td class='code'><pre><code class='xml'><span class='line'><span class="nt">&lt;plugin&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'> <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>org.apache.maven.plugins<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'> <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>maven-help-plugin<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'> <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>3.1.0<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'><span class="nt">&lt;/plugin&gt;</span>
</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>
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<p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317522&amp;version=12343004">Release Notes &ndash; Maven Help Plugin &ndash; Version 3.1.0</a></p>
<p>New Feature:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-144">MPH-144</a> &ndash; Add ability to print mvn help:evaluate output to stdout in quiet mode</li>
</ul>
<p>Improvement:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-151">MPH-151</a> &ndash; Add documentation information for GitHub</li>
</ul>
<p>Tasks:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-145">MPH-145</a> &ndash; Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-146">MPH-146</a> &ndash; JavaDoc Issues / Code cleanups</li>
</ul>
<p>Dependency upgrades:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-147">MPH-147</a> &ndash; plexus-interactivity-api to 1.0-alpha-6</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-148">MPH-148</a> &ndash; Upgrade xstream to 1.4.10</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-149">MPH-149</a> &ndash; Upgrade jdom-legacy to jdom2 2.0.6</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy,</p>
<p>-The Apache Maven team</p>
</div>