We are pleased to announce the Maven WAR Plugin 1.6.3 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/war/ War Plugin for Maven =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: Fixed bugs: o Introduced war.target.filename dependency's property to customize the bundle filename. Note that this property should be used wit the war.target.path property. Fixes MPWAR-61. o Added maven.war.expansion.excludes property to exclude files during a property expansion copy (Fixes corruption of binary files). Applied property expansion to web.xml handling for consistency. Introduced the maven.war.src.filtering property to control whether filtering is enabled or not when copying webapp resources. Fixes MPWAR-65. o Only create tld and lib folders if corresponding dependencies are present. Fixes MPWAR-36. o war:inplace should check for maven.war.src. Fixes MPWAR-45. Thanks to Kim Dykeman. o Java sources are not compiled when used with maven-test-plugin-1.8 and maven.test.skip=true. Fixes MPWAR-62. Thanks to Nicolas de Loof and Shinobu Kawai. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-war-plugin -Dversion=1.6.3 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-war-plugin-1.6.3.jar =============================================================================== Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven WAR Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPWAR Have fun! -The Maven WAR Plugin development team