plexus-utils 3.6.3 brings the bug fixes of 4.2.0 to the 3.x line (#355). It requires Java 8 or later, as before.

✨ Highlights

• Deleting a tree no longer deletes outside it. FileUtils.forceDeleteOnExit followed symbolic links to directories, so a link inside the tree got every file under its target deleted when the JVM exited. deleteDirectory could empty a link's target when the link itself could not be removed. Both now remove only the link (#348, thanks @kakkar87d).
• translateCommandline splits at tabs and line breaks. Outside quotes, \t, \n and \r now separate arguments like a space does. Input that held one of these characters unquoted now yields more arguments; quoted text is unchanged (#352).
• Clearer FileUtils failures. forceDelete uses Files.deleteIfExists, so it also removes dangling symbolic links and skips the Windows retry delay for files that are already gone (#350). copyDirectoryStructure and cleanDirectoryOnExit report an unreadable directory as an IOException naming it, instead of a NullPointerException (#349).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Do not follow symlinks in forceDeleteOnExit and deleteDirectory (#348) @kakkar87d
• Split translateCommandline at tabs and line breaks (#352) @slachiewicz
• Use Files.deleteIfExists in FileUtils.forceDelete (#350) @slachiewicz
• Report an unlistable directory as IOException instead of NullPointerException (#349) @slachiewicz

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