Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 3.2.2 Released

calendar Feb 13, 2020 · 2 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.2.

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>3.2.2</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 3.2.2

  • Bugs:

    • MSHADE-223 - Endless processing when promoteTransitiveDependencies=true
    • MSHADE-284 - Shaded test JARs are always empty
    • MSHADE-291 - shadedPattern applied multiples times when relocating the contents of META-INF/services files
    • MSHADE-298 - Groovy extension module transformer looking in incorrect META-INF directory
    • MSHADE-309 - issue tracker link on the web site of shade plugin does not work.
    • MSHADE-311 - Bad exclusions in dependency-reduced-pom.xml
    • MSHADE-315 - Broken link on Maven Shade Plugin
    • MSHADE-318 - Specifically included class's dependencies are missing
    • MSHADE-331 - Issue Tracker link is not working - Page Not Found
    • MSHADE-337 - Relocation cannot process class file version 58 JARs
    • MSHADE-339 - Shaded test jar has wrong type "jar"
    • MSHADE-340 - Shaded test jar artifact is not attached

  • New Features:

    • MSHADE-306 - Log all duplicates, not only classes
    • MSHADE-347 - Reproducible Builds: make entries in output jar files reproducible

  • Improvements:

    • MSHADE-285 - It should be possible to shade test sources as a JAR
    • MSHADE-313 - Minimize jar should respect implementations under /META-INF/services/
    • MSHADE-316 - Minijar: true
    • MSHADE-319 - Group output into included and excluded artifacts to easily identify them
    • MSHADE-348 - Make build Reproducible

  • Test:

    • MSHADE-327 - improved integration test coverage for relocation and minification

  • Tasks:

    • MSHADE-322 - Provide a transformer for properties files
    • MSHADE-330 - Java 12 and 13 support
    • MSHADE-346 - Introduce mock repository manager for testing
    • MSHADE-350 - Enable ManifestResourceTransformer to rewrite the manifest with relocations

  • Dependency upgrades:

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team