Reproducible Builds by default in Maven 4.0.0-beta-5

[David A. Wheeler]

> On Nov 1, 2024, at 2:58 AM, Hervé Boutemy <herve.boutemy at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> I'm happy to announce that we just released Maven 4.0..0-beta-5 with a very 
> nice improvement: Reproducible Builds is enabled by default!!!

HUGE congrats! Nice job.

> ... this change was very welcome by everybody, as we have a multi-year experience 
> on having configured our builds for reproducibility, checking on every release 
> of every component, and fixing our build when something weird is detected (yes, 
> this happens a few times per year)

I'm impressed with not just the configuration, but the systemic *verification*.
That is fantastic.

Again, congrats, this is great to see.

--- David A. Wheeler