Hello World,
m2e 1.6.2 (1.6.2.20150818-2354) RC1 for Mars has been released. It notably fixes a regression introduced in 1.6.1 that broke the groovy configurator. See the changelog here [1]. It can be installed from [2]. 3rd party configurator providers are *strongly* encouraged to check 1.6.2 works for them.
Unless new blocking issues are found for m2e 1.6.2.20150818-2354, it will most likely be released as-is next week.
m2e 1.7.0 (1.7.0.20150818-2353) M1 for Neon includes all the fixes from 1.6.2 plus initial Java 9 support [3]. It can be installed from [4].
Java 9 beta support for Eclipse must be installed from the Marketplace[5].
Please note m2e 1.7.0 now requires JDK 8 minimum to run.
Enjoy,
Fred.
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