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Archiva Documentation – Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.8
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Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.8

The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 2.2.8. Archiva is available for download from the web site.

Archiva is an application for managing one or more remote repositories, including administration, artifact handling, browsing and searching.

This is a security fix release. Users are advised to update their systems to the new version as soon as possible.

For further information see: https://archiva.apache.org/security.html

If you have any questions, please consult:

New in Archiva 2.2.8

Apache Archiva 2.2.8 is a security fix release:

Compatibility Changes

  • There are no compatibility changes

New Feature

  • There are no new features in this release.

Improvements

  • There are no improvements

Bug/Security Fix

  • CVE-2022-29405 Apache Archiva Arbitrary user password reset vulnerability

Previous Release Notes

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.7

Apache Archiva 2.2.7 is a security fix release:

Released: 2022-12-22

Compatibility Changes

  • [MRM-2021] There is a new flag 'literalVersion=true/false' for service archivaServices/searchService/artifact which allows to change the behaviour for v=LATEST search.

New Feature

  • There are no new features in this release.

Improvements

  • There are no improvements

Bug/Security Fix

  • [MRM-2027] Update of the log4j2 version to 2.17.0
  • [MRM-2020] Fixed the behaviour of the startup script, if ARCHIVA_BASE is set (separating installation and data directory)
  • [MRM-2022] Fixed the handling of X-XSRF-TOKEN header in Javascript calls

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.6

Apache Archiva 2.2.6 is a security fix release:

Released: 2021-12-15

Compatibility Changes

  • No API changes or known side effects.

New Feature

  • There are no new features in this release.

Improvements

  • There are no improvements

Bug/Security Fix

  • Update of the log4j2 version to mitigate the log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)
  • Deactivated directory listings by the file servlet

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.5

Apache Archiva 2.2.5 is a bug fix release:

Released: 2020-06-19

Compatibility Changes

  • No API changes or known side effects.

New Feature

  • There are no new features in this release.

Improvements

  • There are no improvements

Bug Fix

  • [MRM-2008] Fix for group names with slashes
  • Better handling of LDAP filter

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.4

Apache Archiva 2.2.4 is a bug fix release:

  • Fixes for handling of artifacts
  • Improved validation of REST calls

Compatibility Changes

No API changes or known side effects.

Released: 2019-04-30

New Feature

  • There are no new features in this release.

Improvements

  • Adding additional validation to REST service calls for artifact upload

Bug Fix

  • [MRM-1972] Stored XSS in Web UI Organization Name
  • [MRM-1966] Repository-purge not working
  • [MRM-1958] Purge by retention count deletes files but leaves history on website.
  • [MRM-1929] Repository purge is not reflected in index

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.3

New in Archiva 2.2.3

Apache Archiva 2.2.3 is a bug fix release:

  • Some fixes for the REST API were added to detect requests from unknown origin
  • Some bugfixes were added

Compatibility Changes

  • The REST services are now checking for the origin of the requests by analysing Origin and Referer header of the HTTP requests and adding an validation token to the Header. This prevents requests from malicious sites if they are open in the same browser. If you use the REST services from other clients you may change the behaviour with the new configuration properties for the redback security (rest.csrffilter.*, rest.baseUrl). For more information see Archiva Security Configuration and the Redback REST documentation .

    Note: If your archiva installation is behind a reverse proxy or load balancer, it may be possible that the Archiva Web UI does not load after the upgrade. If this is the case you may access the WebUI via localhost or edit archiva.xml manually. In the "Redback Runtime Configuration" properties you have to enter the base URLs of your archiva installation to the rest.baseUrl field.

  • Archiva uses redback for authentication and authorization in version 2.6

Change List

Released: 2017-05-13

New Feature
Improvement
  • [MRM-1925] - Make User-Agent header configurable for HTTP requests
  • [MRM-1861], [MRM-1924] - Increasing timeouts for repository check
  • [MRM-1937] - Prevent creating initial admin user with wrong name.
  • Adding origin header validation checks for REST requests
Bug Fix
  • [MRM-1859] - Error upon viewing 'Artifacts' tab when browsing an artifact
  • [MRM-1874] - Login Dialog triggers multiple events (+messages)
  • [MRM-1908] - Logged on users can write any repository
  • [MRM-1909] - Remote repository check fails for https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
  • [MRM-1923] - Fixing bind issue with certain ldap servers, when user not found
  • [MRM-1926] - Invalid checksum files in Archiva repository after download from remote repository
  • [MRM-1928] - Bad redirect URL when using Archiva through HTTP reverse proxy
  • [MRM-1933] - No message body writer has been found for class org.apache.archiva.rest.services.ArchivaRestError
  • [MRM-1940] - Slashes appended to remote repo url

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.1

New in Archiva 2.2.1

Apache Archiva 2.2.1 is a bugs fix release:

NOTE: jdk 1.7 is now prerequisite with Apache Archiva 2.2.1

Compatibility Changes

If using the Cassandra backend, the metadatafacet column 'key' has been renamed to 'facetKey' in 2.2.0 so you should copy the data to the new column manually. If upgrading from earlier versions of Archiva, the list of libraries in wrapper.conf has changed. If you have customized your copy of wrapper.conf, please update it for compatibility with the version distributed with the current release. As the database storage has been removed, you can remove the JNDI entry for jdbc/archiva.

Refer to the Upgrading Archiva guide for more information.

List of Changes

Improvement
  • [MRM-1201] - Artifact upload success message should mention the classifier
  • [MRM-1906] - Allowing filtering of LDAP groups
Bug Fix
  • [MRM-1873] - archiva doesn't recognise ldap-group to ldap-users mapping
  • [MRM-1877] - Checksum files always recreated
  • [MRM-1879] - Bug in create-missing-checksum consumer
  • [MRM-1886] - View Artifact Content Action does not Work
  • [MRM-1887] - Syntax error in DOAP file release section; wrong bug- database URL
  • [MRM-1892] - Only One Page of Proxy Connector Rules Shown
  • [MRM-1893] - Please delete old releases from mirroring system
  • [MRM-1896] - Invalid link to license
  • [MRM-1914] - Maven cannot find dependency

Release Notes for Archiva 2.2.0

New in Archiva 2.2.0

Apache Archiva 2.2.0 is a bugs fix release:

NOTE: jdk 1.7 is now prerequisite with Apache Archiva 2.2.0

Compatibility Changes

If using the Cassandra backend, the metadatafacet column 'key' has been renamed to 'facetKey' in 2.2.0 so you should copy the data to the new column manually. If upgrading from earlier versions of Archiva, the list of libraries in wrapper.conf has changed. If you have customized your copy of wrapper.conf, please update it for compatibility with the version distributed with the current release. As the database storage has been removed, you can remove the JNDI entry for jdbc/archiva. After upgrading from a previous version, you will have to run a full scan to populate the new JCR Repository. This will be done on first start of Archiva.

Refer to the Upgrading Archiva guide for more information.

List of Changes in Archiva 2.2.0

New Feature
  • [MRM-1867] - Adding a find jar by checksum functionality to the REST api
Improvement
  • [MRM-1390] - Generic metadata should be searcheable in Archiva search
  • [MRM-1844] - Allow LDAP groupOfNames
Bug Fix
  • [MRM-770] - Archiva web client does not recognize classifier
  • [MRM-813] - Audit log is reporting "Modify File (proxied)" when no proxy connectors exist and the file has not changed
  • [MRM-837] - Cannot download SNAPSHOT version
  • [MRM-935] - Archiva doesn't supports artifact with versionSNAPSHOT/version
  • [MRM-1145] - RSS tests do not correctly check responses
  • [MRM-1311] - Logging in ArtifactMissingChecksumsConsumer does not appear in the logs even if configured properly
  • [MRM-1486] - ldap.config.mapper.attribute.user.filter using ldap not working correctly with commas.
  • [MRM-1767] - When selecting a specific repository to browse, I get an error that I don't have sufficient privileges.
  • [MRM-1807] - Archiva wrapper fail to start
  • [MRM-1810] - LDAP - groups config not available in Users Runtime Configuration - Properties
  • [MRM-1811] - Users - Manage section: pagination needs to change
  • [MRM-1846] - Regression in 2.0.1 : uniqueVersion false not supported
  • [MRM-1848] - download links for files mult-dot extensions incorrect in Browse view
  • [MRM-1851] - generic metadata GUI broken
  • [MRM-1860] - ClassNotFound exception with JBoss
  • [MRM-1863] - RepositoryGroup URL is not build using the Application URL
  • [MRM-1864] - Default configuration for central should now use SSL
  • [MRM-1871] - ConcurrentModificationException in DefaultRepositoryProxyConnectors
  • [MRM-1873] - archiva doesn't recognise ldap-group to ldap-users mapping
Task
  • [MRM-1359] - Remove Maven 1.x functionality
  • [MRM-1865] - remove isPermanent from Consumer API

History

Archiva was started in November 2005, building a simple framework on top of some existing repository conversion tools within the Maven project. Initial development focused on repository conversion, error reporting, and indexing. From January 2006 a web application was started to visualise the information and to start incorporating functionality from the unmaintained maven-proxy project.

Development continued through many stops and starts. Initial versions of Archiva were built from source by contributors, and the first alpha version was not released until April 2007. Some significant changes were made to improve performance and functionality in June 2007 and over the next 6 months and a series of alpha and beta releases, a concerted effort was made to release the 1.0 version.

Archiva became an Apache "top level project" in March 2008.