We are pleased to announce the Maven Jar Plugin 1.8 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/jar/ Plugin for creating JAR files. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Add tests for jar manifest creation. Fixes MPJAR-19. o Include Implementation-Vendor-Idattribute for dependencies in manifest. Fixes MPJAR-15. Thanks to Matt Finn. o Support specificationVersion in manifest. Fixes MPJAR-39. Fixed bugs: o Using maven.jar.manifest.classpath.add=truefrom maven console gives huge Class-Path. Fixes MPJAR-46. o Jar plugin generates incorrect manifest file. Fixes MPJAR-36 and MPJAR-49. Thanks to Michael Gaffney. o java:compile and java:jar-resources should be called before the jar goal to create the good directory structure. It was done in test:test before but it's also a prerequisite for jar:jar. Changes: o Remove unused properties from documentation. Fixes MPJAR-47. o Document need for jar.manifest.classpath property. Fixes MPJAR-35. Thanks to Dennis Lundberg. o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : velocity v 1.4-dev -> v1.4 Fixes MAVEN-1712. o It requires at least maven-plugin-plugin v1.7. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-jar-plugin -Dversion=1.8 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-jar-plugin-1.8.jar =============================================================================== Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Jar Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPJAR Have fun! -The Maven Jar Plugin development team