The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Software Foundation Parent POM Version 19.
https://maven.apache.org/pom/asf/ You should specify the version in your project as parent like the following: <parent> <groupId>org.apache</groupId> <artifactId>apache</artifactId> <version>19</version> </parent> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: http://maven.apache.org/pom/asf/download.html Release Notes - Maven POMs - Version ASF-19 ** Improvement * [MPOM-118] - Enforce strong GPG signatures by default * [MPOM-124] - Text about for default compiler version giving 1.4 which is wrong * [MPOM-129] - Upgrade apache-rat-plugin to 0.12 * [MPOM-130] - Upgrade maven-jar-plugin to version 3.0.2 * [MPOM-131] - Upgrade maven-source-plugin to 3.0.1 * [MPOM-136] - Upgrade maven-resources-plugin to 3.0.1 * [MPOM-137] - Upgrade maven-scm-plugin to 1.9.5 * [MPOM-164] - Require Maven 3.0 to build ASF projects * [MPOM-169] - Update to latest RAT 0.12 ** Task * [MPOM-132] - assembly plugin should use posix, not gnu for tarLongFileMode * [MPOM-141] - Upgrade maven-assembly-plugin to 3.0.0. * [MPOM-142] - Upgrade maven-compiler-plugin to 3.6.0. * [MPOM-144] - Upgrade maven-javadoc-plugin to 2.10.4. * [MPOM-146] - Upgrade maven-resources-plugin to 3.0.2. * [MPOM-147] - Upgrade maven-war-plugin to 3.0.0. * [MPOM-148] - Upgrade clirr-maven-plugin to 2.8. * [MPOM-165] - upgrade maven-invoker-plugin to 3.0.1 * [MPOM-166] - upgrade maven-plugin-plugin to 3.5 * [MPOM-170] - migrate to Git ** Dependency upgrade * [MPOM-173] - Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.20.1 Changes since version 18: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven-apache-parent.git;a=blobdiff;f=pom.xml;hb=apache-19;hpb=apache-18 https://github.com/apache/maven-apache-parent/compare/apache-18...apache-19 Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
