June 2026

Work Package 1 — Security of the Supply Chain

• Improve dependency vulnerability monitoring for the Apache Maven project family
• Analyze Maven Artifact plugin to make improvements for buildinfo generation and build comparison
• Remove deprecated deployment feature for buildinfo files from Maven Artifact plugin

Work Package 2 — Maintenance

• fixing issues of new surefire mode using junit platform only
• preparing release 3.10.0
• preparing for upgrade Release Drafter from 6.x to 7.x version

Work Package 3 — Modernization of Core Feature

• Working on atr-maven-plugin to support the release process with ATR (Apache Trusted Releases) service, did the first release of the plugin
• Migration of JUnit3 based tests that using AbstractMojoTestCase to JUnit 5 in Maven Changelog plugin

Work Package 4 — Documentation

• Authoring Getting Started documentation.
• Starting a writing guide for documentation, in general.