3.8.4

What's Changed

• [MNG-6302] logging the module count by @rmannibucau in #136
• [MNG-6424] - Upgrade plexus-interpolation to 1.25 by @shemic87 in #172
• Update Jenkins build to use Maven 3.5.4 by @slachiewicz in #179
• [MNG-6473] Update Mockito to 2.21.0 by @slachiewicz in #181
• MNG-6414 Add more Apache license headers to skip downloading license … by @slachiewicz in #167
• [MNG-6479] Upgrade XMLUnit to 2.2.1 by @slachiewicz in #183
• Fixed typo in exception logging by @slachiewicz in #170
• [MNG-6490] Maven fails reporting circular dependency when the depende… by @slachiewicz in #188
• [MNG-6261] - using java File api to compare by @fabcipriano in #192
• MNG-6529 - ProjectBuild.build(projectsList, ...) ignores request.isResolveDependencies() by @mickaelistria in #193
• [MNG-6559] Fix mailing list URL by @johnlinp in #230
• [MNG-6611] Update animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to version 1.17 by @slachiewicz in #237
• [MNG-6405] Fix basedir in MavenProject.deepCopy by @jglick in #225
• [MNG-6655] Add support for "release" qualifier by @michael-o in #249
• Always deploy snapshot from master by @mickaelistria in #250
• [MNG-6665] toolchain.xml file should support environment variables by @MartinKanters in #251
• MNG-6681 dependency type = extension+classifier by @hboutemy in #254
• [MNG-6718] Upgrade to plexus-utils 3.2.1 by @gnodet in #271
• [MNG-6697] New fast model interpolator not using reflection by @gnodet in #261
• [MNG-6713] Fix ExclusionArtifactFilter to respect wildcard exclusions. by @saturnism in #269
• [MNG-6729] StringSearchModelInterpolator introspects objects from Java API by @Tibor17 in #275
• [refactor] use utility method of Objects to simplify code by @caidezhi in #284
• [MNG-6778] - Use https for maven schemaLocations by @cwansart in #299
• MNG-6759: Fix issue where MavenMetadataSource failed to set the right… by @srdo in #294
• MNG-6771 Fix license issues on binary distribution by @eolivelli in #297
• [MNG-7236] The DefaultPluginVersionResolver should cache results for … by @gnodet in #531
• [MNG-7045] Drop CDI API from Maven by @michael-o in #540

New Contributors

• @rmannibucau made their first contribution in #136
• @shemic87 made their first contribution in #172
• @fabcipriano made their first contribution in #192
• @johnlinp made their first contribution in #230
• @jglick made their first contribution in #225
• @saturnism made their first contribution in #269
• @Tibor17 made their first contribution in #275
• @caidezhi made their first contribution in #284
• @cwansart made their first contribution in #299
• @srdo made their first contribution in #294
• @eolivelli made their first contribution in #297

Full Changelog: https://github.com/apache/maven/commits/maven-3.8.4