              Apache Commons Parent 22 RELEASE NOTES

The Commons Parent team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Parent 22

The Apache Commons Parent Pom provides common settings for all Apache Commons components.

Starting with version 22, the RAT plugin has changed Maven group and id,
so any existing configuration needs to be updated.
To fix component POMs, please change any occurrences of:
 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 <artifactId>rat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
to the new values:
 <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
 <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>

Changes in this version include:


New features:
o           Add commons.release.version and commons.rc.version for use in releasing commons parent 
o           Add release-notes profile to generate RELEASE-NOTES.txt from changes.xml.
            Added changes.xml and template release-notes.vm 
o           Add pom description 
o           Add buildnumber plugin and put build details into manifests. 
o           Add Clirr report for all components 
o           Add Javadoc link to Java EE. 

Fixed Bugs:
o           Added workround for bundle plugin 2.3.5 on Java 1.5 - replace embedded bndlib with previous version 
o           Fix resources and testResource overrides to include the default directories.
            Components which redefine these may no longer need to do so. 

Changes:
o           Update to site plugin 3.0 (usable by Maven 2 and Maven 3) 
o           Update to latest releases of plugins. 
o           Update to Apache RAT plugin, and enable use as standalone goal. 

Removed:
o           Remove Maven IDEA plugin. 

Historical list of changes: http://commons.apache.org/changes-report.html

For complete information on Commons Parent, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Commons Parent website:

http://commons.apache.org/