The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.3.0
.

The Assembly Plugin for Maven is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate
the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation,
and other files into a single distributable archive.

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

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-assembly-plugin
  3.3.0

Release Notes – Maven Assembly Plugin – Version 3.3.0

  • Bugs:

    • MASSEMBLY-879 – useDefaultExcludes has no effect in dependencySet/unpack
    • MASSEMBLY-920 – ContainerDescriptorHandler for MetaInf-Services breaks folder structure
    • MASSEMBLY-932 – resource filtering skipped for resources in the current project
  • New Features:

    • MASSEMBLY-922 – allow to override UID/GID and user name and group name for files stored in TAR (and other formats that store UID/GID)
    • MASSEMBLY-927 – Support for properties mapping on executions of maven-assembly-plugin
    • MASSEMBLY-934 – Support concatenation of files
  • Improvements:

  • Dependency upgrade:

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team