Maven 2.0 Beta 2 is now out

Download: http://maven.apache.org/maven2/download.html

The main improvements in this release are:

* Bug fixes in the reporting API to allow the clover plugin to work in more scenarios
* Bug fixes in the artifact collector for version ranges
* Improvements to offline mode

This release is considered stable with a feature set comparable to Maven 1.0. Further betas and the final are expected to be backwards compatible, with a primary goal of bugfixes, usability improvements, and documentation.

The current roadmap is to make weekly beta releases to encourage faster turnaround for issues found by the
community.

This core release is independent of the plugins available. Further releases of plugins will be made separately.
See Maven Plugin Matrix for more information.

We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult:

* the web site
* the maven-user mailing list

For news and information, see:

* Maven Blogs

Now that we're into the end game for Maven 2.0, we'll be producing weekly betas for installation and testing to try and get more timely feedback on fixes, and to avoid people falling back to building from the latest Subversion which is a moving target.

Beta-2, out today, contains a number of bugfixes, especially to do with dependency resolution.

Beta-3 will focus on polishing up the exception handling and any remaining major issues.

Beta-4 is expected to be close to the final release, with all blocking issues fixed.

At this point, we're keen to get some stable releases out there - there are lots of people looking to put it into production now so it is time to start locking it down. We also expect to deliver regular releases over the following weeks to resolve any minor issues, while work commences on the 2.1 feature release.

Maven 2.0 Beta 1 and its sibling dependency management ant tasks are now out!

Download it from http://maven.apache.org/maven2/download.html

This release includes 206 bug fixes and enhancements since the previous release on 26 June.

The main new features in this release are:

* Further improved dependency management: full support for dependency ranges
* Reactor project aggregation support and summary
* File system discovery of POMs and artifacts to reduce build time and use of local and remote repositories
* Repository metadata support
* System scope dependency support
* Eclipse compiler support, ability to fork compiler
* Ability to automatically bundle sources and javadoc with deployments
* Maven 1.x repository support
* Allow use of setters in mojos for field population
* Ability to separate snapshot repository
* Ability to set minimum Maven version requirement for projects and plugins
* Build extension support
* Bugfixes and enhancements

This release is considered stable with a feature set comparable to Maven 1.0. Further betas and the final are expected to be backwards compatible, with a primary goal of bugfixes, usability improvements, and documentation.

A large number of plugins will be released in the coming week to match the primary Maven 1.0 plugin set.
See Maven Plugin Matrix for more information.

We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult:

* the web site
* the maven-user mailing list

For news and information, see:

* Maven Blogs

Just pushed out Maven 1.1 Beta 2 to the mirrors. Notable improvements:
- problems with deployment have been fixed
- support for forkmode="once" on tests
- validation of the POM before building
- latest plugin updates

-> Release Notes

-> Download

This knocks quite a few minutes off the Geronimo build in my environment, so give it a whirl and let us know if it works for you so we can push towards a final 1.1 release!