No, it's because 2.0.8 is not backwards compatible with 2.0.6, as
documented in the release notes.

On 10/12/2007, Michael McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> its just coincidental that surefire 2.3.1 was released at the same time as
> 2.0.8...
>
> if you specify surefire 2.3 or less in you pluginManagement then the tests
> will start working again... of course its best practice to specify plugin
> versions anyway so magic upgrades don't break things
>
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:30:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We were using maven 2.0.6 in a team with Artifactory as a proxy.
> >
> > I then upgrade my environment to 2.0.8. A whole bunch of new plugins get
> > fetched.
> >
> > Other people were using 2.0.6 but it appears that they also get a whole
> > heap of new plugins.
> >
> > As a result, test cases in another project which had worked before now
> > failed for people running 2.0.6. It appears that the problem is with
> > classpath ordering - for some reason with 2.0.6 and the new bunch of
> > plugins, src/main/resources gets picked up before src/test/resources and
> > so it doesn't load the resources for test cases.
> >
> > So what happens now is that everyone has to abandon 2.0.6 to 2.0.8.
> >
> > Can someone offer any explanation how this could happen?
> >
> > It concerns me that someone running 2.0.6 would now be forced to move to
> > 2.0.8 simply because I decided to upgrade to 2.0.8 in my own environment
> > and project? Is the automatic plugin update a problem here?
> >
> > I don't understand how automatic plugin update works but how would one
> > guarantee repeatable builds ? esp with the releases that have been tagged
> > and potentailly checked out for build later.
> >
> >
> > rOnn c.
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