The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.5.

The Site Plugin is used to generate a site for the project. The generated site also includes the project’s reports that were configured in the POM.

Attention there are breaking changes to know when upgrading.

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.5</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Site Plugin – Version 3.5

Sub-task:

• MSITE-762 – Upgrade Velocity from 1.5 to 1.7

Bugs:

• MSITE-135 – inherited site.xml files are interpolated with the originating project’s model values and not the consumer project’s values
• MSITE-604 – Properties from settings.xml are not recognized in site distribution management
• MSITE-694 – When maven.site.skip=true, mvn site:jar doesn’t skip the generation of the jar
• MSITE-702 – Overriding skin resources / Duplicate copying of skin resources
• MSITE-724 – An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.4:jar
• MSITE-743 – Automatic breadcrumbs generates URLs inconsistent with menus: should point to index.html
• MSITE-744 – Regression in 3.4: File in generated-site/resources/ ignored unless there is a file in generated-site/markdown/ too
• MSITE-750 – site plugin doesn’t override correctly parent distributionManagement site url with another one defined in child project when dav:
• MSITE-752 – Cannot use server side includes.
• MSITE-754 – ConcurrentModificationException when using site:run
• MSITE-760 – when using templateFile, skin is downloaded and info message “Rendering site with skin”

Improvements:

• MSITE-696 – site:deploy try to deploy the site of a sub module even if the property maven.site.skip is set to true
• MSITE-708 – Doc about filtering incorrect about macros rules
• MSITE-723 – “About” report generated even though index.apt is available in “generated-site”
• MSITE-727 – MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
• MSITE-729 – Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.9
• MSITE-740 – Allow multiple extensions for given format
• MSITE-746 – FAQ contains inaccurate description regarding the site life cycle
• MSITE-755 – Upgrade Doxia Sitetools from 1.6 to 1.7
• MSITE-765 – upgrade Doxia from 1.6 to 1.7

New Feature:

• MSITE-756 – add an option to dump Velocity processed Doxia files

Tasks:

• MSITE-753 – remove deprecated template and templateDirectory parameters
• MSITE-759 – Update “Configuring the Site Descriptor” page for Doxia (Sitetools) 1.7
• MSITE-763 – Fix issues reported by dependency:analyze
• MSITE-766 – Upgrade to Commons Lang 3

Wish:

• MSITE-326 – Make input source file encoding default to platform encoding

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team