m2e 1.7 is a minor release mainly focused on stabilization. 50 bugs and enhancements were fixed during that release, the most noteworthy being:
- Autocompletion for directory/file based properties in the POM xml editor
- Autocompletion for project properties override
- Support for Smart import of Maven projects
- Support for plugin embedded archetype catalogs
- Fixed proxy authentication for artifact transfers
- New API for overloading Maven POM properties
- Initial support for Java-SE 9
Embedded runtimes were updated:
- Maven core 3.3.9
- Maven archetype plugin 2.4
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Minor release
This release is part of Neon