Editing Apache Maven (section)

== History ==
[[File:Maven repository artifact growth.png|thumb|The number of artifacts on Maven's central repository has grown rapidly in the past]]

Maven was created by Jason van Zyl in 2002 and began as a sub-project of [[Apache Turbine]]. In 2003 Maven was accepted as a top level [[Apache Software Foundation]] project.

Version history:

* ''Version 1'' - July 2004 - first critical milestone release (now at end of life).
* ''Version 2'' - October 2005 - after about six months in beta cycles (now at end of life).
* ''Version 3'' - October 2010 - remains mostly backwards compatible with Maven 2 projects. Changes included re-working core Project Builder and support for parallel builds. The re-working of the core decoupled file-based and in-memory representation and allowed add-ons to leverage non-XML based project definition files. Languages suggested include [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] (already in private prototype by Jason van Zyl), [[YAML]], and [[Groovy (programming language)|Groovy]]. The parallel build feature leverages a configurable number of cores on a multi-core machine and especially suited for large multi-module projects.
* ''Version 4'' - currently in beta development (as of May 2024).