The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.1.1.

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>3.1.1</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 3.1.1

Bugs:

• MSHADE-273 – Shading of paths starting with / ignores excludes
• MSHADE-275 – Maven Shade Plugin does not work under Java 10

Improvements:

• MSHADE-277 – Identify issue related IT failure mini-jar-malformed-dependencies/pom.xml
• MSHADE-278 – Print out the jar responsible for exceptions like “Error creating shaded jar: invalid LOC header (bad signature)”
• MSHADE-283 – Add documentation information for GitHub

Dependency upgrades:

• MSHADE-276 – Upgrade parent to 31
• MSHADE-279 – Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
• MSHADE-280 – Upgrade jdom 1.1.3 to jdom2 2.0.6
• MSHADE-281 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
• MSHADE-282 – Remove not used directories rel-path-test-files

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

Reporters:

• MSHADE-273: Eugene Kirpichov
• MSHADE-275: Markus Grech
• MSHADE-278: Gary Gregory

Testers:

• Markus Grech
• Rafael Winterhalter

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team