The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Jar Plugin, version 2.6.

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.6</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 2.6

Bugs:

• MJAR-135 – encoding problem with folder-names
• MJAR-151 – Error assembling JAR on OS X
• MJAR-179 – Adding empty files to jar failed with a ZipException : bad CRC checksum
• MJAR-185 – Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7.1
• MJAR-188 – maven-jar-plugin is very slow on machines with slow Unix group lookups
• MJAR-189 – Upgrade plexus-archiver dependency to v2.9

Improvements:

• MJAR-178 – Change information on site
• MJAR-180 – Upgrade to Maven 2.2.1 compatiblity
• MJAR-181 – MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
• MJAR-182 – Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.6.3
• MJAR-184 – Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7
• MJAR-186 – Upgrade maven-plugins-testing-harness from 1.2 to 1.3
• MJAR-187 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 2.6
• MJAR-190 – Upgrade to maven-plugins version 25 to 26
• MJAR-191 – Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team