Release Notes - Maven 2.x WAR Plugin - Version 2.2
** Bug
* [MWAR-240] - archiveClasses and attachClasses in 2.1
* [MWAR-248] - Plugin warns about missing webxml attribute even if
one exists
** Improvement
* [MWAR-252] - Missing documentation: Overlay filter
* [MWAR-268] - Upgrade plexus dependencies for war plugin
* [MWAR-273] - Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
** Wish
* [MWAR-81] - Request enhancement to pattern matching for
packagingIncludes/packagingExcludes functionality (regular
expressions?)
For your convenience, here are some relevant release-notes
from selected dependencies of the war-plugin:
Release Notes - Maven Shared Components - Version maven-archiver-2.5
** Bug
* [MSHARED-38] - Archiver should be adding "Created-By: Apache
Maven _2.0.4_" to the manifest
* [MSHARED-134] - Using ${artifcactId}-Extention-Name in MANIFEST
file can create invalid MANIFEST files
* [MSHARED-182] - manifestEntry seems not to work correctly
** Improvement
* [MSHARED-99] - Archiver should validate manifest attribute names.
* [MSHARED-221] - maven archiver requires JDK5
Release Notes - Plexus Components - Version plexus-archiver-2.1
** Bug
* [PLXCOMP-39] - better validation of manifest entries in plexus-archiver
* [PLXCOMP-47] - Manifest entries containing line feeds are invalid
* [PLXCOMP-70] - Embedded error: String index out of range: 70
* [PLXCOMP-155] - writeManifest generates unusable MANIFEST.MF for
non-latin chars
* [PLXCOMP-177] - JarArchiver generates lines longer than 72 bytes
in MANIFEST.MF
** Task
* [PLXCOMP-172] - remove Ant's Manifest class: use JDK's class instead
Release Notes - Plexus Components - Version plexus-archiver-2.0
** Bug
* [PLXCOMP-163] - ZipFile leaks memory into native heap
* [PLXCOMP-175] - Revert to old groupId
** Improvement
* [PLXCOMP-129] - Archiver should not print info messages for
duplicate directories.
* [PLXCOMP-169] - IO & Archiver forget to raise filename in case of an error
Task
Minor