Maven: release notes, building and managing projects

[gotty]

Maven 3.5.4

The Apache Maven 3.5.4 was released on 21 June 2018 with 6 improvements and 7 bug fixes confirmed.

List of improvements:

• Java home output in mvn -v is misleading (MNG-5756);
• Change the maven-source-plugin jar goal into jar-no-fork in Maven Super POM (MNG-5940);
• Add documentation information for GitHub (MNG-6362);
• Remove secret thread configuration property from code (MNG-6363);
• Enhanced Jenkinsfile to test Core with JDK 9 (MNG-6364);
• Improve readability of project list returned when --resume-from option value is invalid (MNG-6411).

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Maven 3.6.2

The Apache Maven 3.6.2 was released on 27 August 2019 with 16 improvements and 25 bug fixes confirmed.

List of improvements:

• Migrate to non deprecated parts of Commons CLI (MNG-6069);
• Prevent reparsing POMs in MavenMetadataSource (MNG-6638);
• Add support for "release" qualifier (MNG-6655);
• toolchain.xml file should support environment variables (MNG-6665);
• Hint at Maven upgrade requirement when trying to build a pom.xml with a newer modelVersion (MNG-6667);
• Make Resolver debug log messages for projects and plugins consistent (MNG-6675);
• Improve speed in collection merging (MNG-6695);
• Speed improvements while parsing big reactor projects (MNG-6696);
• Add a fast interpolator not using reflection (MNG-6697);
• Lazily compute the ManagedVersionMap (MNG-6698);
• Document maven.repo.local system property (MNG-6701);
• Improve DefaultModelValidator performance (MNG-6702);
• Speep up Artifact version check and Parent interpolation (MNG-6705);
• Upgrade Plexus Utils to 3.2.1 (MNG-6718);
• StringSearchModelInterpolator introspects objects from Java API (MNG-6729);
• Generalize 'resume from' message when build reactor fails (MNG-6747).