What’s New in Maven 4? Exploring POM Model Upgrade, Flattening, and Parallel Builds
Maven 4, now in its fifth release candidate, introduces a new POM model version 4.1.0 with backward compatibility, separates build and consumer POMs to eliminate POM pollution, adds explicit artifact types for classpath and module jars, renames modules to subprojects, and brings a tree‑based lifecycle for true parallel builds, all supported by an official upgrade tool.
