The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.7.0
The Assembly Plugin for Maven enables developers to combine project output into a single distributable archive that also contains dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files. https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.7.0</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/download.cgi Release Notes - Maven Assembly Plugin - Version 3.7.0 ** Bug * [MASSEMBLY-967] - maven-assembly-plugin doesn't add target/class artifacts in generated jarfat but META-INF/MANIFEST.MF seems to be correct * [MASSEMBLY-994] - Items from unpacked dependency are not refreshed * [MASSEMBLY-998] - Transitive dependencies are not properly excluded as of 3.1.1 * [MASSEMBLY-1008] - Assembly plugin handles scopes wrongly * [MASSEMBLY-1018] - Fix examples about useStrictFiltering ** New Feature * [MASSEMBLY-992] - Facility to define assembly descriptor in body of POM ** Improvement * [MASSEMBLY-1007] - Upgrade maven-plugin parent to 41 * [MASSEMBLY-1016] - clarify and fix plugin system requirements history * [MASSEMBLY-1017] - Don't use deprecated methods in code ** Task * [MASSEMBLY-991] - XSDs for 2.2.0 missing from Maven Project Web Site * [MASSEMBLY-1000] - ITs - cleanups, refresh plugins versions * [MASSEMBLY-1003] - Remove unused remoteRepositories * [MASSEMBLY-1004] - Remove ignored and deprecated parameter - useJvmChmod * [MASSEMBLY-1010] - Use IOUtils from commons-io instead of plexus * [MASSEMBLY-1013] - Code cleanups ** Dependency upgrade * [MASSEMBLY-995] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.7.1 to 4.9.1 * [MASSEMBLY-996] - Bump zstd-jni from 1.5.5-4 to 1.5.5-11 * [MASSEMBLY-997] - Bump commons-io from 2.11.0 to 2.13.0 * [MASSEMBLY-999] - Upgrade Parent to 40 * [MASSEMBLY-1009] - Bump commons-io from 2.13.0 to 2.15.1 * [MASSEMBLY-1011] - Bump maven-archiver from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 * [MASSEMBLY-1012] - Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.23.0 to 1.25.0 * [MASSEMBLY-1014] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-interpolation from 1.26 to 1.27 * [MASSEMBLY-1015] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-io from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 * [MASSEMBLY-1019] - Maven 3.6.3 as minimum requirements Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
