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This page summarizes currently known problems when running with java8, latest beta (1.8.0-ea-b124).
see also MNG-5551 for compilations issues
Related continuous integration job is https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/
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Issues registered by the Apache Maven team can found be found by label apache-maven-found
maven-shade-plugin
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.
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The -Xdoclint option allows you to disable some or all of the new checks provided by javadoc. You can disable the reference checks with -Xdoclint:all,-reference
See https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ MSITE-701 for the details.
Another issue is that the excludedocfilessubdir option is ignored with Windows7, org.apache.maven.plugin.javadoc.JavadocReportTest.testJavadocResources() fails when trying to confirm that the maven-feather.png hasn't been copied (watch it, it's the third assertion for the feather!)
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