We are pleased to announce the Maven Jar Plugin 1.4 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/jar/ Plugin for creating JAR files. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: Fixed bugs: o Reorder Specification-Title/Vendor/Version and Implementation-Title/Vendor/Version Fixes MAVEN-936. o Use pom.currentVersion for Specification-Version Fixes MAVEN-936. o Fix for maven.jar.manifest.extensions.add not being checked correctly. o Fix MAVEN-1009 Fixes MAVEN-1009. Changes: o Remove old nav (current etc) as it was confusing people. Implement maven.jar.includes as per Eric Giguere's suggestion. o Added manifest Class-Path, specified by setting property jar.manifest.classpath on dependency artifacts in project.xml. =============================================================================== 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=1.4 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-jar-plugin-1.4.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