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September 2025

Work Package 1 — Security of the Supply Chain

  • We received feedback from the Maven community regarding Dependencytrack and worked on issues mentioned.
  • We published a blog post about reproducible-builds (https://open-elements.com/posts/2025/09/12/reproducible-builds/).
  • We have started to review the current technical release process and how we can improve the automation of it.

Work Package 2 — Maintenance

  • release of Compiler plugin to support Java 25.
  • release of Shade plugin to support Java 25.
  • release of Javadoc plugin to support Java 25.
  • release of Surefire plugin to fix issues related to parallel build and integration with test frameworks such Cucumber, archunit.

Work Package 3 — Modernisation of Core Feature

  • We have started refactoring of the Maven Surefire plugin to use only junit-platform-engine to run tests. This will allow better integration with different test frameworks and better support for parallel test execution.

Work Package 4 — Documentation

  • We have started working on a website to improve the user experience when starting a new Maven project ("Maven Initializer").