The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.1.

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>3.2.1</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.2.1

Bug:

• MSHADE-302 – maven-shade-plugin fails to minimize JAR with Java 11

Improvement:

• MSHADE-303 – Suppress module-info.class warning if the file if filtered

Task:

• MSHADE-301 – java11 support

Dependency upgrade:

• MSHADE-299 – Upgrade maven-dependency-tree to 3.0.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team