Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.8

Version 3.8 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor release that adds functionality, provides some fixes, and removes the archetypes.

New versions of the archetypes are no longer being produced. The last published version is 3.7.1. There are multiple starters available as a preferred alternative to the archetypes. If you want to use one of the previously published archetypes that we are no longer enhancing, refer to this documentation.

New functionality

• Added a classifier parameter for the copyDependencies functionality. See this documentation for more information.
• Added support to copy user features to the Liberty installation when neither installUtility nor featureUtility are available. This is primarily for installing user features on Liberty runtimes earlier than version 21.0.0.11.
• Honor the project encoding for compilation - #1640

Additional Fixes

The following fixes are also included in this release.

• Fix javadoc errors #1675
• Improve integration test #1669
• Fix devc running server detection #1656
• Removed references to Maven 2.x APIs in preparation for compatibility with an upcoming Maven 4.0 release #1663 #1662
• Handle variable resolution in more locations and scenarios #1657 #1655
• Do not delete config files when Liberty installation is pre-existing #1607
• Fix documentation #1649 #1659 #1632 #1631 #1625 #1623

See the commit log for the full set of the changes since the previous release.

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.8 release is available on the Maven Central repository.