[ANN] 1.2.7 of Keel build system/Maven plugin released

Morning All:

Below please find the merged (automated!) announcement messages for
1.2.7 and the (short-lived) 1.2.6 release of the Maven plugin. As you
can see a number of fixes and updates have been made to improve the
build system. These fixes are still undergoing extensive tests on
several different platforms, so please report any problems!

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The keel team is pleased to announce the Maven plugin for Keel 1.2.7
release! 

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Use version 3.1 of tool-maven, which attempts to fix dependency
conflicts 
  instead of simply aborting when detecting a conflict.  

--- 1.2.6 ---------

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o The creation of the "uberjar" file has been improved considerably by
use of 
  a special utility. Rather than un-jarring everything, doing a lot of 
  filesystem work, then jar-ing it all back up, the uberjar is built in
one 
  pass, directly from the original jars in the repository. Build time is
cut 
  substantially. (For example, locally I can build the "minimal" project
in 
  40 seconds) 
o The "temp" directory, which used to be right below the project
directory is 
  now in "target". This ensures it gets "cleaned" when you do a "maven 
  clean". Far fewer temp files are needed in any case. 
o You *must* now supply a maven.uberjar.main property for non-webapp 
  projects, and you *must not* supply it for web app projects. This is 
  essentially how the build system can tell the difference. 
o The bug where logs were created in the Tomcat (or other server) "bin" 
  directory is corrected. Logs for a webapp are now in the WEB-INF/logs 
  directory inside the webapp itself. This fix actually affected a
number of 
  modules. 
o The -Ddebug=true setting (on the Maven command line) will show the
details 
  of the KeelConfigTool, KeelMavenTool and KeelUberJar tools as they
execute. 
o The "keel:test" and "keel:tests" goals have had some minor errors 
  corrected. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Added xdocs for automated generation of release announcements :-) 
o Various bugs (such as the one where a war would fail to build properly
  first time, then build second time around) are fixed.  

To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single
line:

maven plugin:download 
  -DgroupId=keel 
  -DartifactId=maven-keel-plugin
  -Dversion=1.2.7

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://keelframework.org/maven,http://ibiblio.org/maven/keel/plugins/maven-keel-plugin-1.2.7.jar
         
Have fun!
-The keel team
      	

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