The Maven project is again pretty active, with lots of efforts underway to improve artifact resolution, inheritance and interpolation. The changes have led to a reshuffling of the Maven versions.
For a long time, the next big version was 2.1. The trouble is that we were left with maintaining 2.0.x and adding features and possible incompatibilities in what should be a bug fix only branch.
The decision was made to move the trunk from 2.1 to 3.0, since it has significant improvements across the board.
In the meantime, we were working on 2.0.10, and to fix some regressions required significant rework to core functionality. So much rework that we started to wonder if 2.0.x was the appropriate place for such significant changes. Since the trunk was moved up to 3.0, this gave us a bit more leeway in the 2.x line. So, the intended 2.0.10 release was renamed 2.1.0-M1 and 2 additional Milestone releases defined.
The pure bug fixes intended for 2.0.10 will be ported back from the now 2.1.0-M1 release and released as 2.0.10. After that, the 2.0.x line will likely start to close to only critical bug fixes.
Confused yet?
One more time:
2.1 became 3.0
2.0.10 became 2.1.0-M1
2.0.10 will be created by backporting bugs from 2.1.0-M1
Some good news: a 3.0 alpha-1 release should be occurring soon. It will be without the artifact resolution changes AKA Mercury, but will have the new interpolation and inheritance code. This release will identify incompatibilities between 2.x and 3.0 so they can be handled, and to give us a platform to start stabilizing.
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Brian Fox, CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, is a Governing Board Member for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a Governing Board Member for the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Cyber and Technology Resilience Experts (CTREX) Panel, a ...
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