I have a build with A LOT of dependencies (and transient dependencies), and discovered when I upgraded to milestone-4 that my builds went from 12 seconds to 2 minutes.

I discovered this is due to the fact that for each dependency, it's remote repository is hit to get the pom file and the two checksum files. And to make matters worse, sometimes the jar files are re-downloaded. These are release version dependencies, not SNAPSHOTS.

I marked it as major, but it seems pretty critical given the dramatic performance degradation.

Please let me know if any sample or extra info is needed. Thanks.