June 2026

Security of the Supply Chain

• type: SECURITY text: Improve dependency vulnerability monitoring for the Apache Maven project family

• type: IMPROVEMENT text: Analyze Maven Artifact plugin to make improvements for buildinfo generation and build comparison

• type: MAINTENANCE text: Remove deprecated deployment feature for buildinfo files from Maven Artifact plugin

Maintenance

• type: BUG_FIX text: Fixing issues of new Surefire mode using JUnit Platform only

• type: MAINTENANCE text: Preparing release 3.10.0

• type: MAINTENANCE text: Preparing for upgrade of Release Drafter from 6.x to 7.x

Modernization of Core Features

• type: FEATURE text: Working on atr-maven-plugin to support the release process with ATR (Apache Trusted Releases) service; first release of the plugin

• type: IMPROVEMENT text: Migration of JUnit 3 based tests that use AbstractMojoTestCase to JUnit 5 in Maven Changelog plugin

Documentation

• type: DOCUMENTATION text: Authoring Getting Started documentation

• type: DOCUMENTATION text: Starting a writing guide for documentation in general