Liberty Maven Plug-in 3.12.0

Version 3.12.0 of the Liberty Maven Plugin is a minor release with new features and fixes.

New Features

Java Toolchain Support

• Use Maven toolchains to run Liberty Maven Plugin goals with a specific JDK.
• This allows you to control the Java version used by Liberty during build, dev mode, and server operations, even when the system default JDK is different.
• Refer toolchain.md for more details

Java 25 Support

• The Liberty Maven Plugin now supports running with Java 25.

Additional fixes

• SpringBoot deploy fix in #1928
• Adding alias for debug parameters in #1929
• Add doc for the new option p to see port information in #1930
• Added support for maven property references in copyDependencies in #1934
• Fix check for ear dependency for dependencies of type ejb in #1942
• Changes to support archive option correction in POSIX shells in #1951

See the commit log for the full set of the changes since the previous release.

The Liberty Maven Plugin 3.12.0 release is available on the Maven Central repository.