[MNG-6968] Maven depends on ancient maven-site-plugin - upgrade dependency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-2, 4.0.0
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Graham Leggett
• Created: 23/Jul/20 14:24
• Updated: 20/Oct/22 08:11
• Resolved: 08/Nov/20 17:22

Description

The maven release plugin (MRELEASE-1052) currently ignores versions of plugins specified in the POM, and in a pattern as yet not clearly explained chooses maven plugins hardcoded into maven itself.

One such plugin is the maven-site-plugin, which is the POM specified version in a normal build, but hard coded to the ancient v3.3 plugin when triggered from the maven-release-plugin.

Chaos ensues:

https://mkyong.com/maven/mvn-site-java-lang-classnotfoundexception-org-apache-maven-doxia-siterenderer-documentcontent/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51091539/maven-site-plugins-3-3-java-lang-classnotfoundexception-org-apache-maven-doxia
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-671
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51103120/why-does-maven-site-plugin-always-use-version-3-3

Digging leads us to this commit:

https://github.com/apache/maven/commit/4ec06bf67cc6bdffa026f46c5836e3bc895865ed

Looks like until maven is fixed to respect the POM, we need to upgrade the hard coded dependencies to be something not ancient.

Issue Links

• depends upon: MNG-6548 Lifecycle plugin version upgrades
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #382