Surefire 2.5 Released

[stephenc]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Sureire, version 2.5

This release includes the maven-surefire-plugin, which executes the
unit tests of an application, the maven-surefire-report-plugin, which
parses surefire/failsafe test results and renders them to DOXIA
creating the web interface version of the test results, as well as the
maven-failsafe-plugin, which executes the integration tests of an
application.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-failsafe-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.5</version>
</plugin>

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.5</version>
</plugin>

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.5</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 2.5


** Bug
    * [SUREFIRE-502] - Specified classesDirectory is added to the end
of the classpath
    * [SUREFIRE-513] - Surefire Integration Test no longer valid when
run with Maven 2.0.9+
    * [SUREFIRE-529] - forkMode none deprecated but given as an
example in the debugging documentation
    * [SUREFIRE-571] - Using jUnit 4, fork == always, TestSet triggers
static initiailization for all test classes in each forked process.
    * [SUREFIRE-584] - Integration tests do not work during a release
    * [SUREFIRE-596] - Junit test output is broken with junit4-7+

** Improvement
    * [SUREFIRE-511] - Proposal to use java Map for surefire's systemProperties
    * [SUREFIRE-585] - Add Swedish translation

** New Feature
    * [SUREFIRE-555] - Support junit core for parallel running of tests
    * [SUREFIRE-586] - Add support for Maven Toolchains
    * [SUREFIRE-589] - Add a help goal
    * [SUREFIRE-591] - Add maven-failsafe-plugin to surefire project

** Task
    * [SUREFIRE-565] - Bump to Doxia 1.0
    * [SUREFIRE-567] - Review the Doxia Sink calls
    * [SUREFIRE-588] - Update to Maven Plugin Plugin 2.5.1
    * [SUREFIRE-590] - Update to Maven Reporting Impl 2.0.4.3


Enjoy,

-The Maven team