The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven-archiver, version 2.4.1
Maven-archiver is mainly used by plugins to handle packaging. http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-archiver/ You should specify the version as a dependency: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId> <artifactId>maven-archiver</artifactId> <version>2.4.1</version> </dependency> Release Notes - Maven Shared Components - Version maven-archiver-2.4.1 ** Bug * [MSHARED-133] - Invalid example in maven-archiver documentation * [MSHARED-148] - Avoid possible corruption issues and deadlocks by upgrading plexus components ** Task * [MSHARED-135] - Update to plexus-archiver-1.0-alpha-12 to allow Manifest-only jars * [MSHARED-150] - Upgrade Maven prerequisite to version 2.0.6 Enjoy, -The Maven team
