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.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.7.1

Version 3.7.1 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor fix release that contains a couple of fixes. 

The following fixes are included in this release.

• Fix server.env file processing to handle blank lines and comment lines #1603 #1602
• Add binary scanner license to our documentation #1595 #1601
• Add build directory parameter when installing features to enable cleanup of internal folder with generated schema files #1599

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.7.1 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.7

Version 3.7 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor release that adds functionality and provides some fixes. 

Jakarta EE9 and MicroProfile 5 support has been added for the generate-features goal. This support is also included for the dev and devc goals when feature generation is turned on.

The Liberty Maven Plugin now supports running with Java 17. The Liberty Maven Plugin is tested with Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases of Java. The plugin, as of release 3.7, supports Java 8, 11 and 17. Prior to this version, the plugin is supported on Java 8 and 11.

Additional Fixes

The following fixes are also included in this release.

• Fix for #1203 and #1176 related to dev mode and multi-module support.
• Copy SpringBoot application to devc folder in container #1576.
• Removed docker scan suggestion on devc docker build #1575.
• Update README to include information on Java support.
• Add test case for multiple user feature.

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.7 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.6.1

Version 3.6.1 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor fix release that contains a few fixes. 

Liberty dev mode has been updated to disable generate features by default. A new warning explaining that the source configuration directory will be modified is now displayed when generate features is toggled on using the g hotkey and when dev mode is started with the generateFeatures flag set to true.  For more information, refer to the dev goal and generate-features goal documentation.

Additional Fixes

The following fixes are also included in this release.

• An improved dev mode startup message and help menu to make the hotkeys stand out more
• Run generate features (if enabled) after a conflicting feature is removed from server configuration
• If toggling on generate features using the g hotkey creates the configDropins/overrides directory, the generated features are now installed

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.6.1 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plugin 3.6 Release

Version 3.6 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor release that contains new functionality, plus some minor fixes.

The new functionality includes the generate-features goal. This goal creates a Liberty configuration file, generated-features.xml, containing the Liberty features required by the application. Refer to the generate-features goal for more information.

With the new generate-features goal comes new behavior for Liberty dev mode. By default, dev mode will invoke the generate-features goal both at start-up and whenever code or configuration changes are detected. Users can toggle feature generation on and off with the new g hotkey. Users can also optimize the generated feature list using the new o hotkey.

Additional Fixes

The following additional fixes are also included in this release.

• Fixed loose app ejb type in war #1527 #1521
• Update SpringBoot tests to later versions #1514 #1495 #1505

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.6 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.5.2

Version 3.5.2 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor fix release that contains a few fixes.

Support was also added for exploded loose 'war' applications. More information can be found in the dev goal documentation.

The following fixes are included in this release.

• Fixes related to log4j references #1335 #1338
• Return correct artifact file path for Maven artifact - fix for user feature installation #1371 #1372
• Fix regression related to determining Liberty runtime version from dependency management #1361 #1464
• Added support for exploded loose 'war' applications #1289 #1362

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.5.2 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.5.1

Version 3.5.1 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor fix release that contains a few fixes. One notable change is the blocking of dev mode with Maven versions 3.8.2 and 3.8.3 due to a known Maven issue. This has been fixed in Maven version 3.8.4.

Support was also added for specifying the libertyRuntimeGroupId and libertyRuntimeArtifactId as parameters or properties, in addition to the libertyRuntimeVersion which was already supported. See the common parameters for more information. Some examples using the new parameters / properties can be found in the Liberty installation configuration documentation.

The following fixes are included in this release.

• Fixed issue with dev mode and loose application support #1285 #1297
• Blocked dev mode when using Maven version 3.8.2 or 3.8.3 due to known Maven issue #1255 #1279 #1305
• Fixed issue for install-feature failure #1303 #1304

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.5.1 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.5

Version 3.5 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor release that contains new functionality, plus some minor fixes. The new functionality includes a prepare-feature goal to prepare a user feature for installation to the Liberty runtime. Refer to prepare-feature and the Open Liberty 21.0.0.11 blog for more information.

Additional Fixes

The following additional fixes are also included in this release.

• Fixed package server goal for runnable jar and added attach parameter documentation #1239 #1244
• Fixed loose application support for multi-module WAR that contains an ejb module #1240 #1248
• Fixed loose application support for WAR within an EAR with webResources #1250 #1251

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.5 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.4

Version 3.4 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor release that contains new functionality, plus some minor fixes. The new functionality includes general support for running multi-module projects with the dev, devc and run goals. Refer to the Multiple Modules section of the docs for the dev, devc, and run goals for more information.

Additional Fixes

The following additional fixes are also included in this release since the previous milestone release.

• Fixed loose app with dependency artifacts that include classifiers #1154 #1180
• Enabled help goal #1181
• Omitted test scope dependencies from copyDependencies when version parameter is null #1193
• Fixed issue with resolving features due to change in Open Liberty 21.0.0.7 PR 277

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

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.4 release is available on the Maven Central repository.

Liberty Maven Plugin 3.3.5-M2 Pre-release

Version 3.3.5-M2 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a pre-release milestone. This milestone release contains some minor fixes.

• Improved multi-module project processing when using dev mode with the workaround described in the previous milestone.
• Enabled the run goal to work with multi-module projects that use Maven CI friendly versions.
• If userDir configuration is specified, pass it along for the configureArquillian goal which will set the usrDir property for arquillian.xml.
• Added resource filtering for maven archetype so default property value is handled correctly.
• Fixed the run goal to properly invoke the maven-ear-plugin:ear goal and the maven-ear-plugin:generate-application-xml goal for ear projects.
• Initial fixes for handling projects with classifiers related to issue #1154.

See the commit log for the full set of the changes.

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.3.5-M2 pre-release milestone is available on the Maven Central repository.