The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 2.4.1.

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade – i.e. rename – the packages of some of the dependencies.

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

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.4.1</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 2.4.1

Bugs:

• MSHADE-148 – Shade Plugin gets stuck in infinite loop building dependency reduced POM
• MSHADE-194 – Reporting uses maven-invoker-plugin version 1.9 instead of 1.10

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team