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

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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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.3.0</version>
</plugin>

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

Release Notes – Maven Shade Plugin – Version 3.3.0

• Bugs:

  • MSHADE-252 – shadeSourcesContent is broken when combined with partial relocation
  • MSHADE-396 – Improve SourceContent Shading

• New Feature:

  • MSHADE-36 – Add option to include dependency reduced POM instead of original one

• Improvements:

  • MSHADE-321 – Always respect ‘createDependencyReducedPom’ flag
  • MSHADE-371 – Update Shade Apache[Notice/LICENSE]ResourceTransformer to use also [NOTICE/LICENSE].md
  • MSHADE-373 – Source transformation on source jar can break OSGi resolution due to duplicated bundle name
  • MSHADE-382 – Add an option to skip execution
  • MSHADE-391 – Do not modify class files, if nothing was relocated
  • MSHADE-405 – ShowOverlapping Uses http instead of https

• Tasks:

  • MSHADE-389 – Get rid of old baggage
  • MSHADE-390 – Implement Sisu index transformer
  • MSHADE-401 – Improve ServiceResourceTransformer
  • MSHADE-412 – SimpleRelocator can fail in NPE, in particular with manifest transformer

• Dependency upgrades:

  • MSHADE-379 – Support Java 16 – upgrade ASM to 9.0
  • MSHADE-386 – Update JDependency to 2.6.0
  • MSHADE-407 – Update ASM to 9.2 to support Java 17

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team