The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.2.

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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  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-shade-plugin
  3.2.2

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.2.2

  • Bugs:

    • MSHADE-223 – Endless processing when promoteTransitiveDependencies=true
    • MSHADE-284 – Shaded test JARs are always empty
    • MSHADE-291 – shadedPattern applied multiples times when relocating the contents of META-INF/services files
    • MSHADE-298 – Groovy extension module transformer looking in incorrect META-INF directory
    • MSHADE-309 – issue tracker link on the web site of shade plugin does not work.
    • MSHADE-311 – Bad exclusions in dependency-reduced-pom.xml
    • MSHADE-315 – Broken link on Maven Shade Plugin
    • MSHADE-318 – Specifically included class’s dependencies are missing
    • MSHADE-331 – Issue Tracker link is not working – Page Not Found
    • MSHADE-337 – Relocation cannot process class file version 58 JARs
    • MSHADE-339 – Shaded test jar has wrong type “jar”
    • MSHADE-340 – Shaded test jar artifact is not attached

  • New Features:

    • MSHADE-306 – Log all duplicates, not only classes
    • MSHADE-347 – Reproducible Builds: make entries in output jar files reproducible

  • Improvements:

    • MSHADE-285 – It should be possible to shade test sources as a JAR
    • MSHADE-313 – Minimize jar should respect implementations under /META-INF/services/
    • MSHADE-316 – Minijar: true
    • MSHADE-319 – Group output into included and excluded artifacts to easily identify them
    • MSHADE-348 – Make build Reproducible

  • Test:

    • MSHADE-327 – improved integration test coverage for relocation and minification

  • Tasks:

    • MSHADE-322 – Provide a transformer for properties files
    • MSHADE-330 – Java 12 and 13 support
    • MSHADE-346 – Introduce mock repository manager for testing
    • MSHADE-350 – Enable ManifestResourceTransformer to rewrite the manifest with relocations

  • Dependency upgrades:

    • MSHADE-320 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer to 0.11.0
    • MSHADE-338 – Upgrade maven-artifact-transfer 0.12.0
    • MSHADE-341 – Upgrade plexus-utils 3.3.0
    • MSHADE-349 – Upgrade to org.ow2.asm:asm:7.3.1

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team