The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M2.
The release contains 15 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming! http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M2</version> </plugin> or for failsafe: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M2</version> </plugin> or for surefire-report: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M2</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/surefire/download.cgi Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.0.0-M2 Bug - [SUREFIRE-1568 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1568>] - Versions 2.21 and higher doesn't work with junit-platform for Java 9 module - [SUREFIRE-1593 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1593>] - 3.0.0-M1 produces invalid code sources on Windows - [SUREFIRE-1602 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1602>] - Surefire fails loading class ForkedBooter when using a sub-directory pom file and a local maven repo - [SUREFIRE-1605 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1605>] - NoClassDefFoundError (RunNotifier) with JDK 11 - [SUREFIRE-1606 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1606>] - maven-shared-utils must not be on provider's classpath New Feature - [SUREFIRE-1531 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1531>] - Option to switch-off Java 9 modules Improvement - [SUREFIRE-1590 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1590>] - Deploy multiple versions of Report XSD - [SUREFIRE-1591 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1591>] - Java 1.7 feature Diamonds replaced Generics - [SUREFIRE-1594 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1594>] - Java 1.7 feature try-catch - multiple exceptions in one catch - [SUREFIRE-1595 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1595>] - Java 1.7 feature System.lineSeparator() - [SUREFIRE-1597 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1597>] - ModularClasspathForkConfiguration with debug logs (@args file and its path on file system) Test - [SUREFIRE-1596 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1596>] - Unnecessary check JAVA_RECENT == JAVA_1_7 in unit tests - [SUREFIRE-1598 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1598>] - Fixed typo in assertion statement in integration test Surefire855AllowFailsafeUseArtifactFileIT Task - [SUREFIRE-1600 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1600>] - Surefire Project using surefire:2.12.4 is not fully able to work with JDK 10+ on internal build system. Therefore surefire-shadefire should go with Surefire:3.0.0-M2. - [SUREFIRE-1607 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1607>] - Roadmap on Project Site Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
