Introduced aether-transport-file and dropped aether-connector-file

Introduced module aether-transport-wagon and dropped aether-connector-wagon

Introduced aether-transport-classpath module hosting a ClasspathTransporterFactory

Introduced new TransporterFactory SPI along with a new basic connector building on top of it

Introduced TransferEvent.Builder.resetType() to ease generation of event sequence for a given transfer

Considered repository id for keys of in-memory status cache employed by DefaultUpdateCheckManager

Bug 406155 - Allow hooks for dependency collection to derive to null children when hook is no longer needed for sub graph

Updated session validation to account for nullability

Extended VersionFilterContext to expose the list of remote repositories that were contacted to collect the versions

Bug 406155 - Allow hooks for dependency collection to derive to null children when hook is no longer needed for sub graph

Revised API contract to allow DependencyManager, DependencySelector and DependencyTraverser to be null and derive to null

Fixed couple generic signatures

Introduced new VersionFilter hook for the dependency collection process that allows clients to control which of the available versions matching a range should be considered for the dependency graph, ContextualSnapshotVersionFilter provides an interesting showcase of the new extension point.

Bug 405117 - Ease specification of version range bounds that match the least/greatest version in a given branch

Made GenericVersionScheme recognize ranges like "[M.N.*]" as syntactic sugar for "[M.N.min,M.N.max]"

Bug 405117 - Ease specification of version range bounds that match the least/greatest version in a given branch

Revised special tokens to just "min"/"max" to ease usage, especially in XML files

Bug 405117 - Ease specification of version range bounds that match the least/greatest version in a given branch

Introduced support for trailing "<min>" and "<max>" tokens in versions to denote the minimum/maximum of a version segment