JMeter 2.11 requires rsyntaxtextarea 2.5.1 but the latest on Maven central is 2.5.0. I'm surprised deploying it on Maven Central actually worked.
See: https://github.com/bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea/issues/31 It should be fixed as part of RSyntaxTextArea project
In future I think the version of rsyntaxtextarea should only be updated if it is already available from Maven. [Likwewise for any other dependencies]. Unless 2.5.1 is available when when the next release is done, JMeter should revert to 2.5.0. Users can always update the version later themselves if they really need to.
Added check: URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1585833 Log: Detect downloads not from Maven Central Bugzilla Id: 56367 Modified: jmeter/trunk/test/src/org/apache/jmeter/JMeterVersionTest.java
Date: Thu Jul 10 08:43:30 2014 New Revision: 1609422 URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1609422 Log: Bug 56367 - JMeter 2.11 on maven central triggers a not existing dependency rsyntaxtextarea 2.5.1, upgrade to 2.5.3 Bugzilla Id: 56367 Added: jmeter/trunk/licenses/bin/rsyntaxtextarea-2.5.3.txt (contents, props changed) - copied, changed from r1606604, jmeter/trunk/licenses/bin/rsyntaxtextarea-2.5.1.txt Removed: jmeter/trunk/licenses/bin/rsyntaxtextarea-2.5.1.txt Modified: jmeter/trunk/build.properties jmeter/trunk/build.xml jmeter/trunk/eclipse.classpath jmeter/trunk/lib/ (props changed) jmeter/trunk/lib/aareadme.txt jmeter/trunk/res/maven/ApacheJMeter_parent.pom jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3356