The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Enforcer, version 1.4.

Enforcer is a build rule execution framework.

If you need to force things within your build please use the maven-enforcer-plugin.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.4</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Enforcer – Version 1.4.

Bugs:

• MENFORCER-143 – ‘All’ propery is not handled by RequireActiveProfile rule
• MENFORCER-167 – Documented ‘*’ feature of banned dependencies doesn’t work
• MENFORCER-175 – Rule RequirePrerequisite is incorrectly stated as ‘requirePrerequisites’ in docs
• MENFORCER-181 – Failing Integration Test
• MENFORCER-183 – site fails with Maven 3.1.1
• MENFORCER-188 – ReactorModuleConvergence does not print the message
• MENFORCER-205 – Broken link: ‘version’ part of ‘version – range’

Improvements:

• MENFORCER-169 – No Unit Test for RequireActiveProfile Rule and no documentation
• MENFORCER-170 – Refactored Unit Test Code
• MENFORCER-171 – No documentation for RequireEnvironmentVariable
• MENFORCER-177 – Support packagings for RequirePrerequisite rule, always ignore pom.
• MENFORCER-179 – Improve documentation for the bannedDependencies
• MENFORCER-180 – dependencyConvergence consitenly write the rule name in lower case.
• MENFORCER-182 – Missing documentation for new feature MENFORCER-160
• MENFORCER-187 – Link on the page to version is wrong
• MENFORCER-200 – Make Plugin only 2.2.1 compatible – get rid of Maven 2.0
• MENFORCER-201 – MavenProject Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
• MENFORCER-206 – Upgrade maven-invoker-plugin version to 1.9
• MENFORCER-208 – Remove deprecated goals.
• MENFORCER-209 – Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.20
• MENFORCER-210 – Upgrade to maven-parent version 25
• MENFORCER-212 – Upgrade maven-plugin-plugin from 3.2 to 3.3
• MENFORCER-214 – Add prerequisites to maven-enforcer-plugin
• MENFORCER-216 – Upgrade to maven-parent version 26
• MENFORCER-217 – Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
• MENFORCER-218 – Upgrade maven-dependency-tree to 2.2
• MENFORCER-219 – Add m2e mapping
• MENFORCER-220 – Make real MojoExecution available through the EnforcerExpressionEvaluator

New Features:

• MENFORCER-160 – Add levels ERROR and WARN to enforcer rules
• MENFORCER-186 – Create a rule for the reactor (ReactorModuleConvergence)
• MENFORCER-193 – Add new rule: BannedRepositories to ban specified repositories for whole maven session

Tasks:

• MENFORCER-161 – Fix deploySite
• MENFORCER-192 – Update all entries @since with the correct version 1.4
• MENFORCER-202 – Get rid of [WARNING] during build

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team