Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 2.4 Released

Jun 12, 2015 · 1 min read ·

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 2.4.

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:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.4</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 2.4

Bugs:

MSHADE-155 - dependency-reduced-pom should use shadedArtifactId
MSHADE-169 - Typos in warning message
MSHADE-172 - "java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero" in MinijarFilter
MSHADE-174 - Unable to shade Java 8 jarfiles with static interface methods using minimizeJar
MSHADE-183 - Getting "Error creating shaded jar: java.util.jar.Attributes cannot be cast to java.lang.String" error when using ManifestResourceTransformer with Maven 3.2.5
MSHADE-185 - systemPath content is interpolated for system dependencies

Improvements:

MSHADE-177 - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
MSHADE-178 - Removing plexus-container-default dependency
MSHADE-179 - Fix RAT Report
MSHADE-180 - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.18
MSHADE-188 - Upgrade maven-dependency-tree to 2.2
MSHADE-191 - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22
MSHADE-192 - Upgrade maven-invoker to 1.10
MSHADE-193 - Upgrade to fluido skin 1.4.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team