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Release 1.0.0-alpha-6: 2009-04-07

Iterative alpha release. Major fixes:
- # of dependencies - less'n 64 were ordered correctly the rest used to be volatile
- Mercury-ant tasks is succesfully used to bootstrap build Maven3
- bad/missing repository metadata is worked around in most cases

We solved 7 issues:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MERCURY/fixforversion/14964

Staging repo:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-staging-4630e65601be12/

Guide to testing staged releases:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html
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Release 1.0.0-alpha-3: 2009-01-18

7 issues resolved. Main driver for this release - maven-3.0-alpha-2 prep. 
and mercury based tools: mercury-ant in particular.

APIs are not stable yet, major changes:
- plexus component has been altered to handle resolution of multiple artifacts
- DependencyBuilder has been changed to handle global inclusion/exclusion lists
- Virtual Repository exception handling has been changed to correctly report back 
  missing metadata, yet process multiple repositories correctly