> My question is, why is Maven still using 2.4.3?  Is it just that maven
> hasn't been updated recently, or is there some kind of issue with
> using 2.5 or above?

This is easily answered by simply looking at the file timestamps in
Central repo.

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/
2.4.3/                                             08-Feb-2009 14:58
2.5/                                               17-Jan-2010 09:31

compare to
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-core/
2.2.0/                                             30-Jun-2009 18:14
2.2.1/                                             11-Aug-2009 17:06

Thus, when Maven 2.2.1 was released, the most recent Surefire release
was 2.4.3. As Anders said, this is a plugin which has its version
managed by the super pom. If you require a more recent release, you
will need to specify it explicitly in your own pom (and this is a best
practice anyway).

Wayne

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