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Howdy,
This is just a short newsflash about upcoming planned releases related to Maven.
Recently we got a huge spike in plugin releases, with various fixes and improvements. I will not enumerate all of them here, just use `mvn versions:display-plugin-updates` to pick them up ;) (and more to come).

What I do want to share is about our upcoming Maven releases...

Maven 3.9.7 is nearing (read: coming soon), and will have an important Resolver update and other important fixes. Most importantly, the file-locks are getting nice improvement (feedback VERY welcome).

At the same time, we plan to release Maven Daemon (m39) as well, to have it aligned with Maven 3.9.7: with many bug fixes and improvements/alignments to "how Maven 3 behave". Our goal is to make the two (mvn and mvnd) interchangeable on workstations.
Next, Maven 4 is turning beta, so the next release will be beta-1! And again, same thing for Maven Damon (m40), we will have a release that will include Maven 4 beta-1.

* Maven 3.9.7 issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MNG%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%203.9.7
* Resolver 1.9.19 issues (mostly bug fixes): https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MRESOLVER%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.9.19
* Maven 4 beta-1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MNG%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%204.0.0-beta-1
* Resolver 2.0.0 (currently alpha-11, will become beta after Maven4 beta-1 release): https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MRESOLVER%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.0.0-alpha-11

Keep your eyes on our upcoming releases,
and have fun!
- The Apache Maven team