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:

  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