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| layout: post |
| title: "Apache Maven Help Plugin Version 3.0.0 Released" |
| date: '2018-03-18T09:42:47+00:00' |
| permalink: maven-help-plugin-3-0-0 |
| categories: |
| - Maven-Help-Plugin |
| - Maven-Plugin-Releases |
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| The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the |
| [Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.0.0](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/) |
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| 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'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. |
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| You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: |
| |
| ```xml |
| <plugin> |
| <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> |
| <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId> |
| <version>3.0.0</version> |
| </plugin> |
| ``` |
| |
| You can download the appropriate [sources etc. from the download page](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/download.cgi). |
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| [Release Notes - Maven Help Plugin - Version 3.0.0](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317522&version=12330788) |
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| Bugs: |
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| * [MPH-53](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-53) - mvn help:describe returns the version that is specified in metadata instead of the one in the parent pom |
| * [MPH-87](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-87) - help:effective-pom/effective-settings uses platform encoding and garbles non-ASCII characters, emits invalid XML |
| * [MPH-97](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-97) - [Patch] maven-help-plugin does not build with latest version of maven-plugin-testing-harness |
| * [MPH-99](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-99) - Evaluate has no output in quiet mode |
| * [MPH-105](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-105) - Effective pom aggregation is not triggered |
| * [MPH-107](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-107) - Mojos use inconsistent line endings throughout |
| * [MPH-108](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-108) - Patch for MPH-72 not fully applied |
| * [MPH-110](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-110) - Cannot run ITs successfully |
| * [MPH-111](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-111) - IT 'effective-pom_properties' fails if run with -Dinvoker.mergeUserSettings |
| * [MPH-114](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-114) - Goal fails with “Unable to get the POM for the artifact” |
| * [MPH-119](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-119) - The "artifact" parameter is not taken into account with Maven 3 |
| * [MPH-121](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-121) - incorrect text in help:describe for cmd |
| * [MPH-123](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-123) - all-profiles does not show right active status |
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| Improvements: |
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| * [MPH-106](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-106) - add gav parameter to calculate effective pom for any gav, not only reactor |
| * [MPH-109](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-109) - Use ISO 8601 date format for the remaining goals |
| * [MPH-116](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-116) - Printout the information if a goal is a report goal or not |
| * [MPH-120](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-120) - Migrate plugin to Maven 3.0 |
| * [MPH-124](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-124) - Show parameter aliases in describe goal |
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| Tasks: |
| |
| * [MPH-103](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-103) - Remove unused dependency maven-monitor |
| * [MPH-112](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-112) - Upgrade to Commons Lang3 |
| * [MPH-126](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-126) - Require Java 7 |
| * [MPH-132](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-132) - Drop parameter 'medium' |
| * [MPH-133](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-133) - Drop deprecated alias 'full' |
| * [MPH-134](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-134) - Drop deprecated alias 'mojo' |
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| Dependency upgrades: |
| |
| * [MPH-102](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-102) - Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27 |
| * [MPH-104](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-104) - Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3 |
| * [MPH-117](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-117) - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22 |
| * [MPH-118](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-118) - Upgrade maven-plugins to version 30 |
| * [MPH-125](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-125) - Upgrade parent to 31 |
| * [MPH-127](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-127) - Upgrade Maven Artifact Transfer to 0.9.1 |
| * [MPH-128](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-128) - Upgrade Maven Reporting Exec to 1.4 |
| * [MPH-129](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-129) - Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.1.0 |
| * [MPH-130](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-130) - Upgrade XStream to 1.4.7 |
| * [MPH-131](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPH-131) - Ugprade Commons Lang to 3.7 |
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| Enjoy, |
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| -The Apache Maven team |
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