The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Jar Plugin, version 3.0.0.

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

Important Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 6 minimum requirement

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

• MJAR-177 – Empty string should be treated as default classifier
• MJAR-198 – jar:jar without classifier replaces default jar
• MJAR-204 – Adding plexus-utils version 3.0.22
• MJAR-205 – Compatibility with JDK9 requires an update of plexus-archiver
• MJAR-216 – Documentation for skip param in test-jar goal is wrong

Documentation:

• MJAR-197 – Typo in site navigation

Improvements:

• MJAR-183 – Add LifecycleMapping and ArtifactHandler from maven-core to target packaging plugin
• MJAR-194 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 2.10
• MJAR-199 – Option “classifier” to goal test-jar
• MJAR-201 – Upgrade Maven 3.X Only JDK 1.6
• MJAR-202 – Bump version to 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT
• MJAR-203 – Change package to org.apache.maven.plugins to prevent conflict with Maven Core
• MJAR-207 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.3 to 3.1
• MJAR-208 – Make naming of properties consistent
• MJAR-209 – Remove param properties that doesn’t make sense for CLI usage
• MJAR-210 – Remove useDefaultManifestFile parameter
• MJAR-214 – Replace @pom.version@ with @project.version@ in Integration Tests
• MJAR-215 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.1 to 3.1.1 in synch with maven-archiver 3.0.1
• MJAR-217 – Make finalName readonly parameter

Tasks:

• MJAR-213 – Upgrade to maven-archiver 3.0.1
• MJAR-218 – Upgrade to maven-archiver 3.0.2 to fix regression

Reporters of this Release:

• Sanne Grinovero MJAR-205
• Leo Breuss MJAR-199
• Elias Elmqvist Wulcan MJAR-198
• Andreas Kohn MJAR-197
• Stefan Fussenegger MJAR-177

Tester of this Release:

• Stian Soiland-Reyes

Many thanks to all reporters/contributors/testers of this release.

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team