Apache Maven Release History

We are going to learn the history of Apache Maven releases and see how it evolved from an experimental project.

Apache Maven Release History

Apache Maven development History and various versions of Maven tool released

The development of Apache Maven was started with the the Alexandria and later it was moved for the Apache Turbine project. The Maven project found to be very helpful in overcoming the Ant disadvantages. Later Apache Maven was forked as Apache top project and its first version was released in July 2004. The version 2 was released October 2005 and version 3 was released in October 2010. Now Apache Maven is very popular tool used by developers around the world to build Java and Scala projects. In this section we are going to provide you the list of all the version of Maven build tool released till now.

The work Maven is Yiddish word whose meaning is accumulator of knowledge. This project is developed to simplify the application build process. Today developers finds this tool very useful in developing their application. Maven build tool take heavy weight of dependency management and application build process. Now, developers concentrate on the development of business logic for their application while Maven handles complete application development process.

From our website you also find the current releases of all the major libraries in Java and you will also find the pom.xml entry you can add in your project to include the particular library in your project. We are also giving many tutorials that will teach you Maven build tool from scratch. You will also find small examples for learning Apache Maven build tool easily.

Here are the history of Apache Maven releases.

 

Release Date Version Required Java Version  
2021-04-04 3.8.1 Java 7  
2019-11-25 3.6.3  
2019-08-27 3.6.2  
2019-04-04 3.6.1  
2018-10-24 3.6.0  
2018-06-21 3.5.4  
2018-03-08 3.5.3  
2017-10-24 3.5.2  
2017-04-07 3.5.0  
2017-03-24 3.5.0-beta-1  
2017-02-28 3.5.0-alpha-1  
2015-11-14 3.3.9  
2015-04-28 3.3.3  
2015-03-18 3.3.1  
2014-12-20 3.2.5 Java 6  
2014-08-17 3.2.3  
2014-06-26 3.2.2  
2014-02-21 3.2.1  
2013-10-04 3.1.1 Java 5  
2013-07-15 3.1.0  
2013-06-10 3.1.0-alpha-1  

Maven 3.0.x

Maven 3.0 has now reached its end of life. New plugin releases will require Maven 3.1 or later. The following information is made available for reference.

Release Date Version Required Java Version  
2013-02-23 3.0.5 Java 5  
2012-01-20 3.0.4  
2011-03-04 3.0.3  
2011-01-12 3.0.2  
2010-11-26 3.0.1  
2010-10-08 3.0  
2010-09-02 3.0-beta-3  
2010-08-10 3.0-beta-2  
2010-04-23 3.0-beta-1  
2010-04-14 3.0-alpha-7  
2010-01-10 3.0-alpha-6  
2009-11-27 3.0-alpha-5  
2009-11-17 3.0-alpha-4  
2009-11-13 3.0-alpha-3  

Maven 2

Maven 2.x has now reached its end of life.

2014-02-18 End of Life  
2009-11-08 2.2.1 Java 5  
2009-06-30 2.2.0  
2009-03-22 2.1.0 Java 1.4  
2008-09-19 2.1.0-M1  
2010-02-26 2.0.11  
2009-02-18 2.0.10  
2008-04-10 2.0.9  
2007-11-27 2.0.8  
2007-06-21 2.0.7  
2007-04-01 2.0.6  
2007-02-16 2.0.5  
2006-04-11 2.0.4  
2006-03-28 2.0.3  
2006-01-17 2.0.2  
2005-12-13 2.0.1  
2005-10-20 2.0  

Maven 1

Maven 1.x has now reached its end of life.

2014-02-18 End of Life
2007-06-25 1.1
2007-05-12 1.1-RC-1
2006-08-01 1.1-beta-3
2005-09-12 1.1-beta-2
2004-12-07 1.0.2
2004-11-11 1.0.1
2004-07-13 1.0
2004-03-24 1.0-RC2
2003-09-29 1.0-RC1
2003-07-14 1.0-beta-10
2002-04-11 1.0-beta-3
2002-03-30 1.0-beta-2

This is the complete history of Apache Maven releases.

You can find more tutorials at Apache Maven Tutorials page.

Tutorials

  1. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - events-targets version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use events-targets version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  2. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - utils version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use utils version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  3. Maven dependency for com.amazonaws - aws-java-sdk-bundle version 1.12.21 is released. Learn to use aws-java-sdk-bundle version 1.12.21 in Maven based Java projects
  4. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - cloudwatch version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use cloudwatch version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  5. Maven dependency for com.liferay - com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web version 5.0.0 is released. Learn to use com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web version 5.0.0 in Maven based Java projects
  6. Maven dependency for org.liquibase - liquibase-core version 4.4.1 is released. Learn to use liquibase-core version 4.4.1 in Maven based Java projects
  7. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - sdk-core version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use sdk-core version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  8. Maven dependency for com.liferay - com.liferay.asset.categories.navigation.web version 5.0.25 is released. Learn to use com.liferay.asset.categories.navigation.web version 5.0.25 in Maven based Java projects
  9. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - lambda-event-sources version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use lambda-event-sources version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  10. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - stepfunctions-tasks version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use stepfunctions-tasks version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  11. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - s3-deployment version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use s3-deployment version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  12. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - codepipeline version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use codepipeline version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  13. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - apache-client version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use apache-client version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  14. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - sts version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use sts version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  15. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - ec2 version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use ec2 version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  16. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - kinesisfirehose version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use kinesisfirehose version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  17. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - certificatemanager version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use certificatemanager version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  18. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - dynamodb version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use dynamodb version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  19. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - s3 version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use s3 version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  20. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - netty-nio-client version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use netty-nio-client version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  21. Maven dependency for com.liferay - com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web version 3.0.58 is released. Learn to use com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web version 3.0.58 in Maven based Java projects
  22. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - applicationautoscaling version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use applicationautoscaling version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  23. Maven dependency for com.graphql-java - graphql-java version 0.0.0-2021-07-17T04-32-45-a31c8171 is released. Learn to use graphql-java version 0.0.0-2021-07-17T04-32-45-a31c8171 in Maven based Java projects
  24. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - aws-json-protocol version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use aws-json-protocol version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  25. Maven dependency for com.liferay - com.liferay.asset.categories.service version 4.0.13 is released. Learn to use com.liferay.asset.categories.service version 4.0.13 in Maven based Java projects
  26. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - s3 version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use s3 version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  27. Maven dependency for com.graphql-java - graphql-java version 0.0.0-2021-07-17T09-36-00-6d744146 is released. Learn to use graphql-java version 0.0.0-2021-07-17T09-36-00-6d744146 in Maven based Java projects
  28. Maven dependency for com.amazonaws - aws-java-sdk-cloudfront version 1.11.729 is released. Learn to use aws-java-sdk-cloudfront version 1.11.729 in Maven based Java projects
  29. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - cdk-customresources version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use cdk-customresources version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  30. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - codestarnotifications version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use codestarnotifications version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  31. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awscdk - s3-notifications version 1.112.0 is released. Learn to use s3-notifications version 1.112.0 in Maven based Java projects
  32. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - protocol-core version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use protocol-core version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  33. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - sqs version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use sqs version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  34. Maven dependency for org.liquibase - liquibase-core version 4.4.1 is released. Learn to use liquibase-core version 4.4.1 in Maven based Java projects
  35. Maven dependency for software.amazon.awssdk - aws-core version 2.16.99 is released. Learn to use aws-core version 2.16.99 in Maven based Java projects
  36. Apache Maven Release History
  37. Maven dependency for ai.h2o - h2o-algos version 3.32.0.4 is released. Learn to use ai.h2oversion 3.32.0.4 in Maven based Java projects
  38. Maven dependency for ai.h2o - h2o-algos version 3.32.0.5 is released. Learn to use h2o-algos version 3.32.0.5 in Maven based Java projects
  39. Maven dependency for ai.h2o - h2o-algos version 3.32.1.1 is released. Learn to use h2o-algos version 3.32.1.1 in Maven based Java projects
  40. Maven dependency for ai.h2o - h2o-algos version 3.32.1.2 is released. Learn to use h2o-algos version 3.32.1.2 in Maven based Java projects