XMvn 0.4.2 release notes
by Mikolaj Izdebski
What's new in XMvn 0.4.2
* Minor bugfixes
* Empty fields in artifact aliases
Version 0.4.0 introduced a regression - empty fields in artifact
aliases were not replaced by corresponding fields from the main
artifact. This bug was fixed in version 0.4.2.
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Doxia iText backend
by Mikolaj Izdebski
Maven Doxia has a PDF backend implemented using iText.
There are some problems with iText backend:
* iText generated PDFs have different problems (for example
broken links)
* iText upstream discontinued XML to PDF functionalities
so these problems won't be fixed
* Doxia upstream announced that iText backend will likely
be removed in future versions of Doxia
Because of the above reasons I am going to remove iText backends from
Maven Doxia (packages maven-doxia and maven-doxia-sitetools)
in Fedora 19 and later.
Note that Doxia has a second PDF backend, implemented using Apache FOP.
This means that Doxia will continue to support PDF generation, but
using a different backend.
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Mikolaj Izdebski
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New Hamcrest and JUnit in Rawhide
by Tomas Radej
Hi,
after a lengthy fight with compatibility issues, I have pushed and
built the new Hamcrest and JUnit in Rawhide. I have previously done
a local rebuild, which most of the ~200 dependent packages survived
gracefully. Packages that the update broke are:
httpunit, mockito, sshj, xml-security.
I am rolling out (mostly trivial) patches to all four of them.
I tried hard to make sure the transition is smooth, but if your tests
suddenly stop working or if your package is dependent on Hamcrest or
JUnit and there are class/method problems, you might want to look here.
If there are large scale problems that I did not foresee, I will roll
back the build during the weekend so that your workflow is hopefully
unaffected next week.
I will update Hamcrest and JUnit in Fedora 19 once it's established
that they work well in Rawhide and when the Alpha freeze is over.
-- Notes --
Hamcrest, since version 1.2, which is packaged as a compat package in
Fedora, brings a large-scale rewrite of the entire library, which has
had adverse effects on the building of dependent packages, especially
JUnit. However, JUnit upstream did update the library to work with the
newest Hamcrest, so the largest obstacle to the update was removed.
JUnit 4.11 brings, apart from the Hamcrest compatibility, Parameterised
tests and some other tweaks, which you can check out at [1].
[1] https://github.com/junit-team/junit/blob/master/doc/ReleaseNotes4.11.md
Regards, Tomas Radej (FAS tradej)
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Tomas Radej <tradej(a)redhat.com>
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