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

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

Important Note:

• Maven 3.X only
• JDK 7 minimum requirement

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven JAR Plugin – Version 3.1.0

Bugs:

• MJAR-221 – Link to wiki page should be removed now that Codehaus is shut down
• MJAR-237 – Navigation link “Creating an Executable JAR File” is wrong.
• MJAR-240 – maven-jar-plugin index.html – bad links in left column Examples section
• MJAR-245 – Additional attached jar: role of classifier
• MJAR-249 – Get Build working on JDK 10

Improvements:

• MJAR-235 – Update life cycle bound plugin versions
• MJAR-236 – Keep maven-compiler-plugin to 3.5.1 based on JDK9 issues

Dependency upgrades:

• MJAR-243 – maven-archiver 3.1.1 to 3.2.0
• MJAR-246 – Upgrade parent to 31

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team