27

Mostly updates to address working on JDK10 and 11

25

Main focus of this release is compatibility with JDK9 GA.
There are still some plugins (javadoc for example) that do not run properly on jdk9 in all scenarios, that will be addressed in future release once plugins are updated.

21 - more jdk9 improvments

• new version of plugins that ootb work on jdk9, our plexus-archiver override no longer needed for them
• newer version of plexus-archiver & addition of plexus-io override to make sure it always works correctly
• removal of eclipse plugin as it was no longer maintained and it is replaced by native support in eclipse.
• removal of intellij idea plugin as it is no longer needed. IDEA handles maven really well.
• maven minimum requirement was lifted to 3.2.5, but can be overridden by projects themselfs.

JBoss parent 20

Default java version is now 8. But can be overridden.
Make builds work with Java 9's new versioning http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223

other changes are just bringing all plugins and versions to latest.