The Current State of Apache Maven 4
summary
Alpha Maven 4 separates publishing metadata into build pom vs consumer pom, so published artifacts get flattened, parent references removed and dependency lists resolved into a consumable POM; the core now natively supports CI‑friendly revision properties (no flatten plugin required) and a new bom packaging to import many module versions at once. Reactor ordering, caching extensions and mvn config dir speed large multimodule builds; upcoming Alphas require JDK 17 to run and the project notes ~50 Apache plugins and ~2.5 billion Central downloads a year.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Maven 4 overview
- 7:55Maven architecture evolution
- 13:19POM 4.0 challenges
- 23:49Version management in Maven 4
- 35:38Reactor improvements
- 37:03BOM packaging in Maven 4
- 44:00Maven 4 release timeline
- 47:13Maven 4 Java 17 requirement
- 55:42Q&A
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