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org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin

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The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project.

Last release 1 months ago
03 Sep 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 3 weeks to 11 months
Rarely documented
notes for 5 of 34 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
21 years old
40 releases · first in 2006

Release timeline

40 releases since 2006

2006200820102012

Releases

4.0.0-beta-531 Aug 2026pre-release
Warning This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run.
Warning
This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run.

🚀 New features and improvements

Remove PathSelector, replaced by Maven 4 PathMatcherFactory. (#1106) @desruisseaux

Keep the recompiling message at the INFO level when user explicitly requested that information (#1108) @desruisseaux

Demote recompiling message from INFO to DEBUG (#333) (#1089) @elharo

Fix incremental detection of empty sources, 4.x (#1076) @wilx

🐛 Bug Fixes

[#1085] Document conservative incremental default on JDK < 23 (#1086) @ascheman

fix: close Files.walk() stream in getOutputDirectoryPerVersion() (#1071) @elharo

📝 Documentation updates

Convert the FAQ from FML to Markdown (#1111) @slachiewicz

Document implicitly compiled excluded sources. (#1095) @desruisseaux

Fix documentation typos (#1094) @elharo

(docs) Add moditect-maven-plugin as it is a less complex way for Java 8 with java module descriptors (#1062) @bmarwell

Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability (#1072) @potiuk

docs: Upgrade HTTP urls to HTTPS in documentation (#1048) @sakethpanuganti

Fix typos and improve wording in sources.md (#1033) @elharo

Fix minor grammatical errors in modules.md (#1034) @elharo

Javadoc fixes (#1030) @elharo

👻 Maintenance

Update site descriptor to use Maven SITE 2.1.0 schema (#1115) @slawekjaranowski

Cleanup project with options exists in parent, bump dependencies (#1114) @slawekjaranowski

Port the site documentation from APT to Markdown (#1109) @slachiewicz

Pass siteMvn as a String so the site stage runs on Maven 4 (#1107) @slachiewicz

Build against Maven 4.0.0-rc-6 (#1104) @slachiewicz

Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability (#1072) @potiuk

Remove unneeded code (#1023) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

Build against Maven 4.0.0-rc-6 (#1104) @slachiewicz

Remove version numbers of plugins inherited from parent pom.xml (#1097) @desruisseaux

Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/maven-verify.yml from 4 to 5 (#1079) @dependabot[bot]

Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml from 4 to 5 (#1080) @dependabot[bot]

Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/pr-automation.yml from 4 to 5 (#1081) @dependabot[bot]

Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/stale.yml from 4 to 5 (#1078) @dependabot[bot]

Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 48 to 49 (#1067) @dependabot[bot]

Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils from 3.0.24 to 3.6.1 in /src/it/MCOMPILER-366 (#1065) @dependabot[bot]

Bump com.google.inject:guice from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 (#1064) @dependabot[bot]

Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 47 to 48 (#1049) @dependabot[bot]

Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.10 to 9.10.1 (#1058) @dependabot[bot]

Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.9.1 to 9.10 (#1052) @dependabot[bot]

Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.21.0 to 5.23.0 (#1040) @dependabot[bot]

Remove another unused test scope dependency (#1026) @elharo

unused dependency (#1024) @elharo

4.0.0-beta-427 Jan 2026pre-release

Warning This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run.

Warning

This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Various bug fixes in the handling of --patch-module (#1002) @desruisseaux
Avoid confusion with META-INF/versions when the sub-directories are multi-module (#998) @desruisseaux
Annotation processor not always detected when using <type>processor</type> (#987) @desruisseaux

📝 Documentation updates

Fix hyperlinks in the documentation (#1011) @cdouillard

👻 Maintenance

Remove declaration of "plexus-snapshots" repository in integration tests (#1009) @desruisseaux
Quote filenames written in shell scripts (#997) @desruisseaux
Remove the integration test for MCOMPILER-346 (#995) @desruisseaux
chore: drop junit3 references (#985) @sparsick

📦 Dependency updates

Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 46 to 47 (#1018) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 45 to 46 (#1012) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.9 to 9.9.1 (#1004) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.20.0 to 5.21.0 (#1003) @dependabot[bot]

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4.0.0-beta-315 Oct 2025pre-releaseDeprecated

Deprecate the debug flag ( #953 ) @desruisseaux

Warning

This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run.

⚠️ Deprecated

Deprecate the debug flag (#953) @desruisseaux

🚀 New features and improvements

Add a parser for module-info-patch.maven files where `--add-exports and similar options can be specified more easily (#963) @desruisseaux
Build projects that are both multi-module and multi-release. (#959) @desruisseaux
Suport command line parameters for incremental build (#958) @zhaoyunxing92

🐛 Bug Fixes

Module descriptor not found when using forked compiler (#983) @desruisseaux
Fix multi-release support when module-info is not in the base class (#948) @desruisseaux
Make the default include/exclude syntax compatible with the behavior of Maven 3 (#945) @desruisseaux

📝 Documentation updates

Cleanup in IT and Javadoc (#984) @desruisseaux
Add documentation for multi-release and multi-module projects (#976) @desruisseaux
Port and update the documentation (#941) @desruisseaux
Add JDK 23 information and example for annotation processing (#939) @Bukama

👻 Maintenance

Fix for new Kotlin (#978) @cstamas
Bump plugins to solve test issue on macos and Java 25 (#974) @slachiewicz
Add matrix exclusion for specific JDK distributions (#972) @slachiewicz
feat: enable prevent branch protection rules (#956) @sparsick
Replace maven-plugin-testing-harness by maven-testing and remove sisuPlexusVersion property (#954) @cdouillard
Two more test cases for multi-release integration tests (#951) @fridrich
Update the "non-javac-compilers" guide and add an integration test. (#937) @desruisseaux
Refactoring and support of <release> and <module> elements (#320) @desruisseaux

🔧 Build

Fix java source and target version properties (#982) @gnodet

📦 Dependency updates

Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.8 to 9.9 (#980) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.19.0 to 5.20.0 (#970) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.18.0 to 5.19.0 (#957) @dependabot[bot]
Upgrade the dependencies of all remaining occurrences of commons-lang3. (#950) @desruisseaux
Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.6 to 3.18.0 in /src/it/MCOMPILER-268_modulepath (#947) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.4 to 3.18.0 in /src/it/MCOMPILER-203-processorpath/annotation-processor (#946) @dependabot[bot]
Undeclared dependencies (#944) @fridrich
Port to maven 4.0.0-rc-4 (#943) @fridrich
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 44 to 45 (#936) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.17.0 to 5.18.0 (#329) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 43 to 44 (#328) @desruisseaux
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.7.1 to 9.8 (#318) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.16.1 to 5.17.0 (#322) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.16.0 to 5.16.1 (#313) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.14.2 to 5.16.0 (#307) @dependabot[bot]

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4.0.0-beta-217 Feb 2025pre-release

Warning This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run. Some of documentation need to be updated, like: MCOMPILER-609

Warning

This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.x to run.
Some of documentation need to be updated, like: MCOMPILER-609

🚀 New features and improvements

Enable GitHub Issues (#287) @slawekjaranowski
Upgrade to Maven 4.0.0-rc-2. (#276) @desruisseaux
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.7 to 9.7.1 - JDK 24 support (#270) @dependabot[bot]
Add dependabot for 3.x branch (#279) @slawekjaranowski
Update release-drafter configuration (#277) @slawekjaranowski
Add PR automation (#278) @slawekjaranowski
Rewrite the plugin using standard javax.tools API instead of Plexus. (#271) @desruisseaux
Cleanup usages of System.getProperty calls. (#261) @turbanoff

🐛 Bug Fixes

[MCOMPILER-592] - IndexOutOfBoundsException when project.build.output… (#244) @thijsrijpert
Fix CompilerMojo#getSourceInclusionScanner(String) illogical addAll (#243) @JackPGreen
Fix message when building because of a clean state (#242) @gnodet
Fix wrong Toolchain message (#253) @gnodet

📦 Dependency updates

Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.7 to 9.7.1 - JDK 24 support (#270) @dependabot[bot]
Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.7 to 2.14.0 in /src/it/MCOMPILER-203-processorpath/annotation-user (#264) @dependabot[bot]

📝 Documentation updates

[MNGSITE-529] - Rename "Goals" to "Plugin Documentation" (#296) @Bukama

👻 Maintenance

Add Stale action (#304) @slawekjaranowski
Publish documentation to LATEST-4.x (#301) @slawekjaranowski
Update docs for Maven 4 and release option (#294) @Bukama
Rename property moduleVersion to maven.compiler.moduleVersion (#302) @slawekjaranowski
Add badge for 3.x version (#297) @slawekjaranowski
Simplify GH action (#298) @slawekjaranowski
Disable Jenkins build (#280) @slawekjaranowski
Refactoring: AbstractCompilerMojo: Replace StringBuilder with String.join() (#265) @stokito
Remove old JUnit 3.x reference (#254) @gnodet
Fix build with Maven 4 (#252) @gnodet

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4.0.0-beta-126 Jun 2024pre-release

Warning This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.0.0-beta-3 to run.

Warning

This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.0.0-beta-3 to run.

What's Changed

Exclude JDK 8 - temurin, adopt-openj9 on macos, use defaults values by @slawekjaranowski in #238
Remove info about old versions by @elharo in #237
[MCOMPILER-588] JUnit4 test framework to JUnit5 migration by @MidNight-er in #236
[MCOMPILER-591] testCompile - fix detections of target less than 1.9 by @slawekjaranowski in #240
[MCOMPILER-590] Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 41 to 42 by @dependabot in #235
Remove Maven 3 note by @elharo in #241
[MCOMPILER-593] Switch to the Maven 4 API by @gnodet in #147
Cleanup by @gnodet in #249
Fix license/notice by @gnodet in #250
Build with JDK 17 and 21 in Jenkins by @gnodet in #251

New Contributors

@MidNight-er made their first contribution in #236

Full Changelog: maven-compiler-plugin-3.13.0...maven-compiler-plugin-4.0.0-beta-1

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3.16.03 Sept 2026Deprecated

Avoid using deprecated method CompilerConfiguration.setCompilerVersion ( #1121 ) @slawekjaranowski

🚀 New features and improvements

Recompile when dependencies change (#1102) @wilx
Fix incremental detection of empty sources, 3.x (#1075) @wilx

🐛 Bug Fixes

[MCOMPILER-578] - Track outputs across compiler executions (#1091) @wilx
Build fails when annotation processor list is empty (but present) (#1077) @wilx
[MCOMPILER-374] - Unable to compile MR-JAR code against older directories when module-info.java is present (#1093) @wilx
Make mcompiler-120 IT locale independent (#1063) @anilvdl

📝 Documentation updates

[MCOMPILER-569] - Document implicitly compiled excluded sources (#1092) @wilx
Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability (#1074) @potiuk

👻 Maintenance

Avoid using deprecated method CompilerConfiguration.setCompilerVersion (#1121) @slawekjaranowski
Replace adopt-openj9 by semeru JDK distribution on GH (#1122) @slawekjaranowski
Port the site documentation from APT to Markdown (#1110) @slachiewicz
Verify against Maven 4.0.0-rc-6 (#1105) @slachiewicz
Fix tests on Jenkins (#1100) @slawekjaranowski
Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability (#1074) @potiuk
Refactor compiler mojo to use dependency injection and improve string… (#1066) @slachiewicz
Fix ITs for Maven 3.10.x (#1061) @slawekjaranowski
Update maven-surefire-plugin version to 3.x in the MCOMPILER-481 IT (#1035) @cdouillard

📦 Dependency updates

Bump plexusCompilerVersion from 2.16.2 to 2.17.0 (#1112) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0 (#1113) @dependabot[bot]
use latest Maven 4 (#1045) @hboutemy
Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml from 4 to 5 (#1083) @dependabot[bot]
Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/pr-automation.yml from 4 to 5 (#1082) @dependabot[bot]
Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/.github/workflows/maven-verify.yml from 4 to 5 (#1084) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 48 to 49 (#1068) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-invoker-plugin from 3.9.1 to 3.10.1 (#1047) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 47 to 48 (#1050) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.14 to 3.9.16 (#1054) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.10 to 9.10.1 (#1059) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.9.1 to 9.10 (#1053) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.13 to 3.9.14 (#1041) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.12 to 3.9.13 (#1038) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 (#1032) @dependabot[bot]

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3.15.027 Jan 2026

Fix Java 25 compatibility during integration tests ( #1020 ) @desruisseaux

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fix Java 25 compatibility during integration tests (#1020) @desruisseaux
[MCOMPILER-540] - useIncrementalCompilation=false may add generated sources to the sources list (#192) @mensinda

👻 Maintenance

Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 45 to 46 (#1015) @slachiewicz
Remove declaration of "plexus-snapshots" repository (#1010) @desruisseaux
Works only with Maven 4.0.0 rc4 (#996) @slachiewicz
Enable Java 25 and Maven 4 in CI (#975) @slachiewicz

📦 Dependency updates

Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 (#1016) @dependabot[bot]
Bump plexusCompilerVersion from 2.16.1 to 2.16.2 (#1021) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 46 to 47 (#1019) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 (#1008) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.9 to 9.9.1 (#1005) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.11 to 3.9.12 (#1007) @dependabot[bot]
Bump maven-plugin-testing-harness to 3.4.0 (#1001) @slawekjaranowski
Bump plexusCompilerVersion from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 (#999) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 (#993) @dependabot[bot]
Bump plexusCompilerVersion from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 (#992) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.ow2.asm:asm from 9.8 to 9.9 (#981) @dependabot[bot]

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3.14.118 Sept 2025

🚀 New features and improvements

Improve DeltaList behavior for large projects (#335) @gsmet
Allow to not use --module-version for the Java compiler (#331) @pzygielo

🐛 Bug Fixes

Add generatedSourcesPath back to the maven project (#312) @mensinda
[MCOMPILER-538] - Do not add target/generated-sources/annotations to the source roots (#191) @mensinda

📦 Dependency updates

Enforce asm version used here, to not depend on brittle transitive (#964) @olamy
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.10 to 3.9.11 (#952) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 44 to 45 (#935) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.9 to 3.9.10 (#336) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 (#324) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 43 to 44 (#316) @dependabot[bot]

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3.14.017 Feb 2025

🚀 New features and improvements

Enable GitHub Issues (#305) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-579] - allow module-version configuration (#273) @mguillem
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 - JDK 24 support (#293) @dependabot[bot]
Update release-drafter configuration, PR automation (#281) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-588] - JUnit4 test framework to JUnit5 migration (#236) @MidNight-er

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fix release-drafter config (#292) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-591] - testCompile - fix detections of target less than 1.9 (#240) @slawekjaranowski

📦 Dependency updates

Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-java from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 - JDK 24 support (#293) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.6.3 to 3.9.9 (#283) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 4.8.0 to 4.11.0 (#288) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 42 to 43 (#285) @dependabot[bot]
[MCOMPILER-590] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 41 to 42 (#235) @dependabot[bot]

👻 Maintenance

Update scm tag according to branch (#303) @slawekjaranowski
[MNGSITE-529] - Rename "Goals" to "Plugin Documentation" (#300) @Bukama
Use JUnit version from parent (#299) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-529] - Update docs about version schema (Maven 3) (#295) @Bukama
Use default Maven versions for build on GitHub (#289) @slawekjaranowski
Remove Maven 3 note (#241) @elharo
Remove info about old versions (#237) @elharo

🔧 Build

Exclude JDK 8 - temurin, adopt-openj9 on macos, use defaults values (#238) @slawekjaranowski

Open source →

3.13.015 Mar 2024Deprecated

[MCOMPILER-576] - Deprecate parameter "compilerVersion" ( #223 ) @kwin

🚀 New features and improvements

[MCOMPILER-574] - Propagate cause of exception in AbstractCompilerMojo (#232) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-582] - Automatic detection of release option for JDK < 9 (#228) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-583] - Require Maven 3.6.3 (#229) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-577] - Rename parameter "forceJavacCompilerUse" (#225) @kwin
[MCOMPILER-570] - Add links to javac documentation of JDK17 (#224) @kwin
[MCOMPILER-576] - Deprecate parameter "compilerVersion" (#223) @kwin

📦 Dependency updates

[MCOMPILER-575] - Bump plexusCompilerVersion from 2.14.2 to 2.15.0 (#227) @dependabot
Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 3 to 4 (#226) @dependabot

📝 Documentation updates

[MCOMPILER-548] - JDK 21 throws annotations processing warning that can not be turned off (#200) @hgschmie

👻 Maintenance

[MCOMPILER-584] - Refresh page - Using Non-Javac Compilers (#231) @slawekjaranowski
[MCOMPILER-585] - Refresh plugins versions in ITs (#230) @slawekjaranowski
subject verb agreement (#221) @elharo

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