The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the
Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M4.

The release contains 43 bug fixes.
Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports
and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming!

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-surefire-plugin
  3.0.0-M4

or for failsafe:

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-failsafe-plugin
  3.0.0-M4

or for surefire-report:

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-surefire-report-plugin
  3.0.0-M4

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Surefire – Version 3.0.0-M4

Bugs:

SUREFIRE-1222 – ForkClient attempts to consume unrelated lines
SUREFIRE-1464 – Failsafe plugin exposes slf4j-jdk14 dependency
SUREFIRE-1534 – Surefire 2.21.0 ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.StartupReportConfiguration using reuseForks set to false
SUREFIRE-1546 – JUnit 5 runner does not honor JUnit 5 display names
SUREFIRE-1664 – “plugin’s wiki page” points to non-existing web page
SUREFIRE-1669 – POJO tests do not call fixture methods setUp and tearDown and test instances are not new between tests
SUREFIRE-1670 – wrong “Filtering by Test Class Names” in failsafe “Using JUnit 5 Platform” page
SUREFIRE-1675 – Forked JVM terminates with ‘halt’ when another module’s tests fail
SUREFIRE-1679 – Caching of provider classpath with module-specific changes may break test bootstrapping in subsequent modules
SUREFIRE-1684 – The documentation of Maven Surefire Report Plugin contains wrong number of plugin goals
SUREFIRE-1689 – The fast PpidChecker is switched to the slow 30 seconds PING after the subprocess (/bin/ps -o etime= -p …) failed with exit 1
SUREFIRE-1690 – Typo fixed: classpathDependencyExclude
SUREFIRE-1701 – Surefire / Failsafe rerun failed tests functionality fails with JUnit 5 if using @DisplayName
SUREFIRE-1707 – Forked JVM is killed when GC paused the tests for over 30 seconds
SUREFIRE-1712 – Running tests with JDK13 fails with Unsupported class file major version 57
SUREFIRE-1716 – JUnit5 Parameterized tests and re-run should see unique test runs with different parameters

New Features:

SUREFIRE-1584 – Rerun Failing Tests with JUnit 5
SUREFIRE-1705 – new config parameter Exclude Environment Variables
SUREFIRE-1711 – Support @ParameterizedTest for JUnit 5 test reruns
SUREFIRE-1717 – Enable Process Checkers

Improvements:

SUREFIRE-1004 – Enhance pattern/wildcard capabilities for dependenciesToScan to GAVT
SUREFIRE-1585 – Align JUnit Platform version at runtime
SUREFIRE-1617 – Surefire fails with bad message when path contains colon
SUREFIRE-1619 – FileReporter should not use PintWriter because i/o errors are not thrown
SUREFIRE-1620 – Replaced deprecated component ArtifactFactory with RepositorySystem
SUREFIRE-1634 – Add missing since tags to excludesFile and includesFile
SUREFIRE-1635 – Set properties readonly where it doesn’t make sense to change values
SUREFIRE-1647 – When using junit5, delay loading testClass and use myown classLoader
SUREFIRE-1666 – printSummary=false does not completely suppress the summary on the console
SUREFIRE-1668 – The stackTrace should use CDATA in XML report.
SUREFIRE-1682 – Default value for config parameter ‘shutdown’ should change from ‘testset’ to ‘exit’
SUREFIRE-1702 – [JDK 11 Alpine Linux] JAR content is not flushed completely down to drive “Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile target/surefire/surefirebooter13749914711390838584.jar”
SUREFIRE-1703 – [JDK 11 Alpine Linux] Surefire handled random order of pid and /procps does not filter pid on busybox distributions
SUREFIRE-1704 – [JDK 11 Alpine Linux] long etime within hours has format 2h01 on busybox

Tasks:

SUREFIRE-1678 – JUnit5 Integration Tests should test wide spectrum of versions
SUREFIRE-1683 – Buildfix: TLS 1.2 passed to maven-invoker-plugin via system property
SUREFIRE-1706 – Use the checkstyle in tests and set includeTestSourceDirectory=true
SUREFIRE-1714 – Created module “surefire-shared-utils” as a required dependency in “surefire-extensions-api” and “maven-surefire-common”

Dependency upgrades:

SUREFIRE-1642 – Upgrade plexus-java to Version 1.0.3
SUREFIRE-1646 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer Version 0.11.0
SUREFIRE-1672 – DOXIA updated to version 1.9
SUREFIRE-1674 – DOXIA TOOLS updated to version 1.9.1
SUREFIRE-1685 – Upgrade maven-fluido-skin to 1.8 and maven-site-plugin to 3.8.2

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team