The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the second alpha release of Maven 2.0.

  The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the second alpha release of Maven 2.0.

  Download it from: http://maven.apache.org/maven2/download.html

  Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model(POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

  This release includes 76 bug fixes and enhancements
(http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10500&fixfor=11020)
since the first release on 8 April.

  Maven 2.0 is a rewrite of the popular Maven application to achieve a number of goals, and to provide a stable basis to take it into the future.  While it can be considered quite stable, and future versions are now expected to  retain a high amount of backwards compatibility, this is still a technology preview, and not yet complete or considered ready for a production environment.

  The main new features in this release are:

    * Basic site generation
    * Improved error handling
    * Automatic plugin updates
    * Published Mojo and Plugin API
    * Inclusion of Ant tasks for Maven 2.0

  This release is expected to be much more architecturally stable, making early adoption a possiblity. At this point, there are still only the core plugins available.

  We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult:

    * the web site: http://maven.apache.org/maven2/
    * the maven-user mailing list: http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html

  For news and information, see:

    * Maven Blogs: http://www.mavenblogs.com/

- The Apache Maven team