We are pleased to announce the Maven Jar Plugin 1.5 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/jar/

Plugin for creating JAR files. 

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Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o trim shortDescription and limit to 72 characters with warning when using 
  specification-title to avoid broken manifests Fixes MPJAR-27. 
o change ln -sf command to rm -f symlink, ln -s combo because -f flag is not 
  used on Solaris ln. Fixes MPJAR-24. 
o move maven.remote.group to default.properties 
o improve manifest generation Fixes MPJAR-22. Thanks to Corey Jewett. 
o revert maven.final.name to previuous value after executing jar:snapshot 
  related goals. Fixes MPJAR-17.  

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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=1.5

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-jar-plugin-1.5.jar


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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