The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JAR Plugin, version 2.5

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 2.5

Bugs:

• MJAR-157 – forceUpdate documentation is insufficient
• MJAR-162 – skipIfEmpty not work for test-jar goal and empty directories
• MJAR-167 – skipIfEmpty outputs incorrect logging nessage

Improvements:

• MJAR-168 – Update to latest plexus-archiver
• MJAR-170 – please add property ‘maven.jar.classifier’
• MJAR-175 – Documentation problem for test-jar
• MJAR-176 – Usage page should (only) describe default behavior

Tasks:

• MJAR-158 – use maven-plugin-tools’ java 5 annotations
• MJAR-171 – Remove deprecated mojo jar-sign and jar-sign-verify
• MJAR-173 – Check correctness of declared deps

— The Apache Maven Team.