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.