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

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>3.3.0</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven JAR Plugin - Version 3.3.0

• Bug:

  • MJAR-275 - outputTimestamp not applied to module-info; breaks reproducible builds

• Tasks:

  • MJAR-278 - Update plugin (requires Maven 3.2.5+)
  • MJAR-280 - Java 8 as minimum

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MJAR-288 - Upgrade Parent to 36
  • MJAR-290 - Update Plexus Utils to 3.4.2
  • MJAR-291 - Upgrade Parent to 37

Enjoy,

• The Apache Maven team