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