Noteworthy

This version provides plugin and report configuration for the OWASP Dependency Check plugin (CVE scans).
- Known library detection mismatches are suppressed by default via Build Resources;
- An additional project-specific suppressions file may be declared with the dependency.check.project.suppression property.
- see BUILD-373 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Introduce PIT Mutation Testing default plugin configuration (Add-ons Parent POM-only).
- see BUILD-362 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Raise minimum required Maven version to 3.3.9 (Nov 2015, still a conservative baseline).
- Most developers and build tools are operating with Maven 3.5 or 3.6 nowadays (with the colored output ).
- see BUILD-363 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Bring a general update of most Maven plugins, especially to support build/plugin executions on latest Java runtimes.
- see BUILD-364 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Upgrading

Upgrading should be straightforward. Most Core and Add-ons artifacts have already been updated ahead of the Magnolia 6.2 release.