🚀 New features and improvements

• Replace runing external process and parsing output with simple ProcessHandle if available (Java9+) (#3252) @olamy
• Pass slf4j context to spawned thread (#3241) @scottrw93
• [SUREFIRE-3239] - allow override of statistics file checksum (#3247) @XN137
• Reduce log level for skipped tests result to info (#3232) @strangelookingnerd

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use PowerShell instead of WMIC for detecting zombie process on Windows (#3258) @jbliznak. Please note if you are using Windows with Java 8 and not PowerShell (you have options to: use Java 9+, install PowerShell or stay on Surefire 3.5.4)
• Properly work with test failures caused during beforeAll phase (#3194) @Frawless

📝 Documentation updates

• Clarify how late placeholder replacement (@{...}) deals with (#3208) @kwin

👻 Maintenance

• Fix Jenkin badges in README (#3254) @slawekjaranowski
• Use JUnit5 in failsafe ITs (#3251) @slawekjaranowski
• Remove long-deprecated unused encoding property from VerifyMojo (#3198) @Tomlincoln
• Add IT and deal with corner cases of handling beforeAll failures (#3200) @Frawless
• Revert PR #3194 that handle beforeAll failures to follow proper contributing rules (#3211) @Frawless

🔧 Build

• Missing many files in the GH Artifacts of CI ex-post. (#3219) @Tibor17

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core from 2.10.4 to 2.11.0 (#3209) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.4.0 to 3.5.1 (#3260) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump parent from 44 to 47 (#3253) @slawekjaranowski
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.16.1 to 3.27.7 in /surefire-its/src/test/resources/surefire-1733-testng (#3246) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.6 to 3.27.7 (#3245) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.26 to 1.27 (#3243) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.20.0 to 4.21.0 (#3236) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 (#3235) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core from 2.17.1 to 2.25.3 in /surefire-its/src/test/resources/surefire-1659-stream-corruption (#3234) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.19.0 to 4.20.0 (#3228) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.18.0 to 4.19.0 (#3224) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.19.0 to 3.20.0 (#3223) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-interpolation from 1.28 to 1.29 (#3221) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-i18n from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 (#3220) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0 (#3217) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 (#3214) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 (#3218) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.16.0 to 4.18.0 (#3213) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.24 to 1.26 (#3202) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump jacocoVersion from 0.8.13 to 0.8.14 (#3204) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.4 to 3.27.6 (#3183) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.18.0 to 3.19.0 (#3192) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core from 2.10.3 to 2.10.4 (#3180) @dependabot[bot]

🚀 New features and improvements

• Name the shutdown hook (#3170) @cstamas
• Implement fail-fast behavior for JUnit Platform provider (#3155) @marcphilipp
• Create a single LauncherSession for invocations of JUnitPlatformProvider (#863) @marcphilipp

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [SUREFIRE-2298] - fix xml output with junit 5 nested classes (fix integration with Cucumber and Archunit) (#828) @olamy

👻 Maintenance

• feat: enable prevent branch protection rules (#3168) @sparsick
• Get rid of plexus-annotations (#3163) @olamy
• Remove maven-changes-plugin (#861) @sparsick
• Enable GitHub Issues (#831) @Bukama

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.15.0 to 4.16.0 (#3173) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-i18n from 1.0-beta-10 to 1.0.0 (#3172) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.13.0 to 4.15.0 (#3171) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.3 to 3.27.4 (#3167) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.27.1 to 1.28.0 (#3165) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 (#3161) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.17.0 to 3.18.0 (#3158) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.12.0 to 4.13.0 (#856) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core from 2.10.2 to 2.10.3 (#860) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils from 1.7.0 to 1.11.0 in /surefire-its/src/test/resources/webapp (#851) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.11.1 to 4.12.0 (#844) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.fusesource.jansi:jansi from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 (#836) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.18.0 to 2.19.0 (#833) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-interpolation from 1.27 to 1.28 (#829) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 (#830) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump jacocoVersion from 0.8.12 to 0.8.13 (#827) @dependabot[bot]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [SUREFIRE-1737] - Fix disable in statelessTestsetReporter (#816) @slawekjaranowski
• [SUREFIRE-1643] - surefire junit5 parallel tests (#815) @olamy
• [SUREFIRE-2289] - Make exceptions more appropriate to context (#798) @elharo

👻 Maintenance

• surefire shared utils version current version (#825) @olamy
• Update site descriptors (#821) @slawekjaranowski
• Use newer version of surefire for itself testing, enable JUnit 5 in tests (#822) @slawekjaranowski
• Remove dependencies from root pom (#819) @slawekjaranowski
• move this dependency to dptMngt (#818) @olamy
• [SUREFIRE-2291] - Change logger from Plexus to SLF4J (#811) @jeffjensen
• Add GitHub Automation actions (#812) @slawekjaranowski
• Convert reports to Guice (#803) @elharo
• [MNGSITE-529] - Rename "Goals" to "Plugin Documentation" (#809) @Bukama
• Update encoding docs (#802) @elharo
• Guice injection (#801) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.10.0 to 4.11.1 (#823) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump parent to 44 (#817) @slawekjaranowski
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 (#810) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.4.0 to 4.10.0 (#813) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.17.0 to 2.18.0 (#797) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.2 to 3.27.3 (#807) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.27.0 to 3.27.2 (#805) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.26.3 to 3.27.0 (#800) @dependabot[bot]

🚀 New features and improvements

• [SUREFIRE-2278] - Don't say please. (#792) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

• [SUREFIRE-2281] - Doxia 2.0.0 ga (#794) @michael-o
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.2 to 2.14.0 in /surefire-its/src/test/resources/surefire-979-smartStackTrace-wrongClassloader/module1 (#789) @dependabot

👻 Maintenance

• [SUREFIRE-2282] - surefire-report-plugin: Update Introduction documenta… (#796) @michael-o
• Reduce cyclomatic complexity (#793) @elharo

Full Changelog: surefire-3.5.1...surefire-3.5.2

🚀 New features and improvements

• [SUREFIRE-2270] - Use JUnit5 in surefire-shadefire (#783) @slawekjaranowski
• [SUREFIRE-2266] - Execute ITs in parallel (#781) @slawekjaranowski
• [SUREFIRE-2264] - Limit usage of commons-io from surefire-shared-utils (#777) @slawekjaranowski

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [SUREFIRE-2267] - Packages for commons-codec should be relocated in surefire-shared-utils (#782) @slawekjaranowski
• [SUREFIRE-1737] - Fix disable in statelessTestsetReporter (#780) @slawekjaranowski
• [SUREFIRE-2257] - [REGRESSION] NPEx: Cannot invoke "Object.toString()" … (#774) @michael-o

📦 Dependency updates

• [SUREFIRE-2273] - Bump org.hamcrest:hamcrest from 2.2 to 3.0 (#784) @dependabot
• [SUREFIRE-2272] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 - JDK 23 support (#786) @dependabot
• [SUREFIRE-2226] - Upgrade to Maven Verifier 2.0.0-M1 (#706) @michael-o
• [SUREFIRE-2265] - Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.1 to 2.17.0 (#779) @dependabot
• [SUREFIRE-2263] - Use the latest version of surefire for self build (#776) @slawekjaranowski
• [SUREFIRE-2262] - Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.16.0 to 3.17.0 (#775) @dependabot

👻 Maintenance

• [SUREFIRE-2269] - Allow fail during clean in surefire-its (#785) @slawekjaranowski

Improvement

• [SUREFIRE-2227] - Dynamically calculate xrefTestLocation

Wish

• [SUREFIRE-2199] - [WARNING] * org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-report-plugin:3.1.2

Task

• [SUREFIRE-2161] - Align Mojo class names and output names

Dependency upgrade

• [SUREFIRE-2228] - Upgrade to Doxia 2.0.0 Milestone Stack
• [SUREFIRE-2256] - Upgrade to Parent 43

What's Changed

• [SUREFIRE-2256] Upgrade to Parent 43 by @michael-o in #770
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.27.0 to 1.27.1 by @dependabot in #771
• [SUREFIRE-2228] Upgrade to Doxia 2.0.0 Milestone Stack by @michael-o in #629

Full Changelog: surefire-3.4.0...surefire-3.5.0

Bug

• [SUREFIRE-2251] - [REGRESSION] java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.StartupReportConfiguration.<init>
• [SUREFIRE-2253] - [REGRESSION] Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.26.0 to 1.26.1 causes hang

Improvement

• [SUREFIRE-1385] - System properties defined in the Surefire and Failsafe plugin configuration should override user properties

What's Changed

• javadoc: improve description of systemPropertyVariables by @kwin in #759
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.26.0 to 3.26.3 by @dependabot in #760
• [Doc] Failsafe Verify goal should mention failsafe by @bdemers in #764
• [SUREFIRE-1385] Add new parameter "userPropertyVariables" to overwrite by @kwin in #762
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.26.2 to 1.27.0 by @dependabot in #769
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.14.0 to 3.16.0 by @dependabot in #767
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.3.0 to 4.4.0 by @dependabot in #765

New Contributors

• @bdemers made their first contribution in #764

Full Changelog: surefire-3.3.1...surefire-3.4.0

Bug

• [SUREFIRE-2105] - Failsafe report size increased with version upgrade from 2.17 to 2.22.2
• [SUREFIRE-2242] - Plain test report does not include names of the skipped tests
• [SUREFIRE-2250] - Surefire Test Report Schema properties element is not consistent with the code

Improvement

• [SUREFIRE-1360] - Ability to disable properties for successfully passed tests
• [SUREFIRE-1934] - Ability to disable system-out/system-err for successfully passed tests
• [SUREFIRE-2124] - Avoid creating unnecessary target files for pom projects
• [SUREFIRE-2249] - Doc for `properties` parameter does not mention JUnit

What's Changed

• Update MSITE and MPIR in a few ITs by @michael-o in #751
• [SUREFIRE-2124] Avoid creating unnecessary target files for pom projects by @michael-o in #753
• [SUREFIRE-2242] Plain test report does not include names of the skipp… by @michael-o in #752
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 by @dependabot in #754
• Improve time units by @michael-o in #756
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.23 to 1.24 by @dependabot in #757
• [SUREFIRE-1360] Ability to disable properties for successfully passed tests by @michael-o in #755
• [SUREFIRE-2250] Surefire Test Report Schema properties element is not consistent with the code by @michael-o in #758

Full Changelog: surefire-3.3.0...surefire-3.3.1

Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.3.0

Bug

• [SUREFIRE-1939] - Build fails if java.home has <=2 path components
• [SUREFIRE-2232] - [REGRESSION] StatelessXmlReporter fails to process failed result without a throwable
• [SUREFIRE-2240] - Using JUnit BOM prevents upgrading the engine version via plugin dependency

Improvement

• [SUREFIRE-2248] - Make "type" attribute on failures and errors in (surefire|failsafe)-test-report schema optional

Test

• [SUREFIRE-2141] - Surefire 3.0.0-M8 tests don't pass on Mac M1 (Surefire1295AttributeJvmCrashesToTestsIT)

Task

• [SUREFIRE-2244] - Make IT for SUREFIRE-1295 reliable
• [SUREFIRE-2246] - Clean up dependencies reported by dependencies:analyze

Dependency upgrade

• [SUREFIRE-2047] - Upgrade to maven-common-artifact-filters 3.4.0
• [SUREFIRE-2243] - Upgrade commons-io:commons-io to 2.16.0
• [SUREFIRE-2245] - Upgrade to Parent 42 and Maven 3.6.3

What's Changed

• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 3.9.0 to 3.10.0 by @dependabot in #717
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.25.0 to 1.26.0 by @dependabot in #722
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 3.10.0 to 3.11.0 by @dependabot in #721
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.25.1 to 3.25.3 by @dependabot in #719
• Remove references to very old versions of surefire and TestNG by @elharo in #723
• [SUREFIRE-2240] Don't manage JUnit5 artifact versions by @kwin in #725
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.26.0 to 1.26.1 by @dependabot in #727
• Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #724
• [SUREFIRE-2243] Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.15.1 to 2.16.0 by @dependabot in #728
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 by @dependabot in #731
• Bump jacocoVersion from 0.8.11 to 0.8.12 (Java 22/23) by @dependabot in #729
• Remove references to very old versions by @elharo in #734
• [SUREFIRE-2244] Make IT for SUREFIRE-1295 reliable by @michael-o in #741
• Directory, not folder by @michael-o in #740
• [SUREFIRE-2245] Upgrade to Parent 42 and Maven 3.6.3 by @michael-o in #737
• [SUREFIRE-2246] Clean up dependencies reported by dependencies:analyze by @michael-o in #738
• [SUREFIRE-1939] Build fails if java.home has <=2 path components by @michael-o in #743
• Fix schema locations in code which lead to 404 by @michael-o in #745
• [SUREFIRE-2047] Upgrade to maven-common-artifact-filters 3.4.0 by @michael-o in #742
• [SUREFIRE-2248] Make "type" attribute on failures and errors in (sure… by @michael-o in #746
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.26.1 to 1.26.2 by @dependabot in #735
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.25.3 to 3.26.0 by @dependabot in #736
• Bump org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core from 2.9.1 to 2.10.0 by @dependabot in #732
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 3.11.0 to 4.2.0 by @dependabot in #744
• [SUREFIRE-2232] StatelessXmlReporter: handle failed test result without a throwable by @dr29bart in #716
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-interpolation from 1.25 to 1.27 by @dependabot in #748
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-component-annotations from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 by @dependabot in #747

New Contributors

• @dr29bart made their first contribution in #716

Full Changelog: surefire-3.2.5...surefire-3.3.0

JIRA link

Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 3.2.5

Bug

• [SUREFIRE-2223] - Surefire evaluates parameter jvm before skip
• [SUREFIRE-2224] - StatelessXmlReporter#getTestProblems() does not properly reflect report schema structure
• [SUREFIRE-2225] - Surefire ITs fail when project directory contains space
• [SUREFIRE-2229] - [REGRESSION] SUREFIRE-2224 causes stack trace to be omitted for errors and failures
• [SUREFIRE-2231] - JaCoCo 0.8.11 fails with old TestNG releases on Java 17+

Improvement

• [SUREFIRE-1345] - Support flakyFailure and flakyError in TestSuiteXmlParser
• [SUREFIRE-2221] - Document minimum supported Java version for Toolchains

What's Changed

• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0 by @dependabot in #695
• Bump org.fusesource.jansi:jansi from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 by @dependabot in #684
• Bump doxiaVersion from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0 by @dependabot in #609
• [SUREFIRE-2221] Document minimum supported Java version for Toolchains by @sbernard31 in #701
• [SUREFIRE-2224] StatelessXmlReporter#getTestProblems() does not properly reflect report schema structure by @michael-o in #702
• [SUREFIRE-2223] Surefire evaluates parameter jvm before skip by @michael-o in #703
• Use uppercase convention for enum member names by @michael-o in #704
• [SUREFIRE-2225] Surefire ITs fail when project directory contains space by @michael-o in #705
• Run CI tests also with Java 21 by @slachiewicz in #707
• Bump org.apache.maven.wagon:wagon-http-lightweight from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3 by @dependabot in #699
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0 in /maven-failsafe-plugin/src/it/jetty-war-test-failing by @dependabot in #694
• Bump org.htmlunit:htmlunit from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0 in /maven-failsafe-plugin/src/it/jetty-war-test-passing by @dependabot in #693
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.15.0 to 2.15.1 by @dependabot in #712
• Bump net.java.dev.javacc:javacc from 7.0.12 to 7.0.13 by @dependabot in #711
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-docck-plugin from 1.1 to 1.2 by @dependabot in #713
• [SUREFIRE-2231] JaCoCo 0.8.11 fails with old TestNG releases on Java 17+ by @michael-o in #710
• Bump org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.24.2 to 3.25.1 by @dependabot in #714
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-component-metadata from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 by @dependabot in #715

New Contributors

• @sbernard31 made their first contribution in #701

Full Changelog: surefire-3.2.3...surefire-3.2.5