Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 3.4.0 Released

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.4.0.

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 dependencies.

Notes:

• Starting from this release you need JDK8 as minimum.
• Minimum Maven Version 3.1.1.

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>3.4.0</version>
5</plugin>

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

Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 3.4.0

• Bug:

  • MSHADE-425 - Maven shade plugin build fails without 'clean' goal

• Tasks:

  • MSHADE-393 - Upgrade project from Java 7 to 8
  • MSHADE-416 - Jenkins URL is wrong.
  • MSHADE-423 - Get rid of commons-lang3

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHADE-415 - Upgrade maven-plugin parent to 37
  • MSHADE-424 - Upgrade jdependency 2.8.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team