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Issues registered by the Apache Maven team can found be found by label apache-maven-found
maven-shade-plugin
Believed MSHADE-166 Believed to have substantial problems due to ASM 5 being required. ASM5 has a tentative release date in march, with a current beta version and possibly another beta later.
fixed in 2.3 (released on 2014-05-02)
maven-compiler-plugin
The current compiler plugin should work on java8, as long as you stay away from the error-prone compiler. The compiler plugin IT's fail on JDK8 because the error-prone-compiler does not work with JDK8. plexus-compiler has adaptations for error-prone on branch MCOMPILER217, but error prone IT fails on m-c-p. https://code.google.com/p/error-prone/issues/detail?id=224
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Running forkMode=never was fixed in 2.17 (unreleased as of yetreleased on 2014-03-16). Requires b124
maven-javadoc-plugin
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