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title: Maven Site Plugin History
author: 
  - Hervé Boutemy
date: 2018-01-20
---

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# Maven Site Plugin History

The Maven site plugin leverages certain other modules outlined at [Architecture](./index.html).

## Maven Site Plugin vs Doxia vs Doxia Sitetools

Given this layered approach, rendering issues reported to [MSITE Maven Site Plugin issue tracker](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MSITE) are often translated to [Doxia](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DOXIA) or [Doxia Sitetools](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DOXIASITETOOLS) issues. Any issues fixed in Doxia or Doxia Sitetools are inherited to the maven-site-plugin once its dependency is updated.

Knowing which version of maven-site-plugin uses which version of Doxia or Doxia Sitetools is useful to choose to which version to upgrade maven-site-plugin to benefit from a fix: this is the basis for the [simplified migration guide](./migrate.html).

|release date|maven-site-plugin|[Doxia](/doxia/)|[Doxia Sitetools](/doxia/doxia-sitetools/)|[Maven Reporting Executor](/shared/maven-reporting-exec/)|minimum Java|minimum Maven|Comment|
|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|2026-05|3\.22\.0|2\.1\.0|2\.1\.0|2\.0\.1|||Doxia 2\.1\.0 with support for Mermaid diagrams|
|2024-10|3\.21\.0|2\.0\.0|2\.0\.0|2\.0\.0|||Doxia 2\.0\.0|
|2024-08|3\.20\.0|2\.0\.0-M12|2\.0\.0-M19|2\.0\.0-M14||3\.6\.3|Doxia 2\.0\.0 (still based on non-final milestone releases)|
|2022-07|3\.12\.1|||||||
|2022-04|3\.12\.0||||8|3\.2\.5||
|2022-02|3\.11\.0|||1\.6\.0||||
|2021-12|3\.10\.0|1\.11\.1|=|||||
|2020-06|3\.9\.1||1\.9\.2|1\.5\.1|7|3\.0\.5||
|2020-03|3\.9\.0|1\.9\.1|1\.9\.2|||||
|2019-07|3\.8\.2|1\.9|1\.9\.1||7|3\.0|addition of confluence/docbook/twiki support by default|
|2018-04|3\.7\.1||1\.8\.1|||||
|2017-12|3\.7|1\.8|=|1\.4|||Markdown parser/HTML renderer [changed](/doxia/doxia/doxia-modules/doxia-module-markdown/)|
|2016-11|3\.6||1\.7\.4|1\.3||||
|2016-04|3\.5\.1||1\.7\.1|||||
|2016-02|3\.5|1\.7|=||6|2\.2\.1|`site.xml`&apos;s `head` and `footer` changed from DOM to String, requiring CDATA|
|2014-07|3\.4|1\.6|=|1\.2|||Reports inherit configuration from pluginManagement|
|2013-05|3\.3|1\.4|=|1\.1|||addition of Markdown support by default in maven-site-plugin|
|2012-10|3\.2||=|||||
|2012-04|3\.1|1\.3|=|1\.0\.2|5|2\.2\.1||
|2011-08|3\.0|1\.2|=|1\.0\.1|5|2\.2\.0|first maven-site-plugin that renders reports with Maven 3|
|2012-04|2\.4|1\.3|=|||||
|2011-05|2\.3|1\.2|=|||||
|2010-11|2\.2|1\.1\.4|=|||||
|2010-06|2\.1\.1|1\.1\.3|=|||||
|2009-12|2\.1|1\.1\.2|=|||||
|2009-03|2\.0|1\.0|=|||||

