sbt/notes/0.11.0.markdown

Major Improvements:

• Move to 2.9.1 for project definitions and plugins

• Drop support for 2.7

• Settings overhaul, mainly to make API documentation more usable

• Support using native libraries in run and test (but not console, for example)

• Automatic plugin cross-versioning. Use

    addSbtPlugin("group" % "name" % "version")
  

  in project/plugins.sbt instead of libraryDependencies += ... See Plugins for details

Fixes and Improvements:

• Display all undefined settings at once, instead of only the first one
• Deprecate separate classpathFilter, defaultExcludes, and sourceFilter keys in favor of includeFilter and excludeFilter explicitly scoped by unmanagedSources, unmanagedResources, or unmanagedJars as appropriate (Indrajit)
• Default to using shared boot directory in ~/.sbt/boot/
• Can put contents of project/plugins/ directly in project/ instead. Will likely deprecate plugins/ directory
• Key display is context sensitive. For example, in a single project, the build and project axes will not be displayed
• #114, #118, #121, #132, #135, #157: Various settings and error message improvements
• #115: Support configuring checksums separately for publish and update
• #118: Add about command
• #118, #131: Improve last command. Aggregate last <task> and display all recent output for last
• #120: Support read-only external file projects (Fred)
• #128: Add skip setting to override recompilation change detection
• #139: Improvements to pom generation (Indrajit)
• #140, #145: Add standard manifest attributes to binary and source jars (Indrajit)
• Allow sources used for doc generation to be different from sources for compile
• #156: Made package an alias for package-bin
• #162: handling of optional dependencies in pom generation