The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.1.0.

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>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>

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

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.1.0.

Bugs:

• MSHADE-242 – Plugin does not work with Java 9
• MSHADE-247 – NullpointerException when createSourcesJar = true and source jar cannot be found
• MSHADE-253 – NullPointerException if minimizeJar == true && packaging == pom
• MSHADE-255 – IllegalArgumentException on relocating class
• MSHADE-258 – RemappingClassAdapter is deprecated and throws an exception with ASM 6.0 beta

Improvement:

• MSHADE-257 – Bad zero length source jars published by 3rd parties cause source jar creation to fail.

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team