The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.7.1
The Assembly Plugin for Maven enables developers to combine project output into a single distributable archive that also contains dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files. https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.7.1</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/download.cgi Release Notes - Maven Assembly Plugin - Version 3.7.1 ** Bug * [MASSEMBLY-1020] - Cannot invoke "java.io.File.isFile()" because "this.inputFile" is null * [MASSEMBLY-1021] - Nullpointer in assembly:single when upgrading to 3.7.0 * [MASSEMBLY-1022] - Unresolved artifacts should be not processed ** Dependency upgrade * [MASSEMBLY-1023] - Bump org.apache.maven.shared:maven-filtering from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 * [MASSEMBLY-1024] - Bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress from 1.25.0 to 1.26.1 * [MASSEMBLY-1025] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.9.1 to 4.9.2 Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team