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This page summarizes currently known problems when running with java8, latest beta (1.8.0-ea-b119b124).

see also MNG-5551 for compilations issues

maven-verifier

Related continuous integration job is https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/  

If issues appear due to regression in JDK8, they can be filed at http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/

embedded mode does not work due to sun bug 9009028 (not public yet) - System.setProperties(null) corrupts java.home. This affects at least maven-core and surefire.Issues registered by the Apache Maven team can found be found by label apache-maven-found

maven-shade-plugin

Believed MSHADE-166 Believed to have substantial problems due to ASM 5 being required. ASM5 has a tentative release date in march, might be with a beta up-front. Current ASM-5 beta not usable. We should consider starting migrations on the next beta.current beta version and possibly another beta later.

fixed in 2.3 (released on 2014-05-02)

maven-compiler-plugin

The current compiler plugin should work on java8, as long as you stay away from the error-prone compiler. The compiler plugin IT's fail on JDK8 because the error-prone-compiler does not work with JDK8. plexus-compiler has adaptations for error-prone on branch MCOMPILER217, but error prone IT fails on m-c-p. https://code.google.com/p/error-prone/issues/detail?id=224

maven-surefire-plugin

Running forkMode=never was fixed in 2.17 (unreleased as of yet). Building still does now work, running build with -Dverifier.forkMode=once should do the trick.released on 2014-03-16). Requires b124

maven-javadoc-plugin

The javadoc executable has become stricter compared to previous versions:

• "unknown tag" has become an error
• "reference not found" has become an error

This means that generating the javadocs can suddenly fail only by upgrading the JDK

The -Xdoclint option allows you to disable some or all of the new checks provided by javadoc.  You can disable the reference checks with -Xdoclint:all,-reference

See MSITE-701 for the details.

Another issue is that the excludedocfilessubdir option is ignored with Windows7, org.apache.maven.plugin.javadoc.JavadocReportTest.testJavadocResources() fails when trying to confirm that the maven-feather.png hasn't been copied (watch it, it's the third assertion for the feather!)

This issue has been registered as https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8032205 and confirmed.

maven-jarsigner-plugin

With jdk <1.8, when jarsigner can not verify a jar then exit code is 1 (this is normal); while with jdk 1.8, result code is 0.

This issue has been registered as https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031572