The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.6.0
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>3.6.0</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 3.6.0 ** Bug * [MASSEMBLY-843] - finalName as readonly parameter makes common usecases very complicated * [MASSEMBLY-965] - Symbolic links get copied with absolute path * [MASSEMBLY-977] - Warning if using Maven 3.9.1 * [MASSEMBLY-986] - Minimal default Manifest configuration of jar archiver should be respected ** New Feature * [MASSEMBLY-973] - Support Zstandard compression format ** Improvement * [MASSEMBLY-989] - in RB mode, apply 022 umask to ignore environment group write umask * [MASSEMBLY-990] - add system requirements history ** Task * [MASSEMBLY-974] - Drop deprecated repository element * [MASSEMBLY-983] - Support running build on Java 20 * [MASSEMBLY-984] - Refresh download page * [MASSEMBLY-985] - Cleanup declared dependencies * [MASSEMBLY-988] - Avoid using deprecated methods of plexus-archiver ** Dependency upgrade * [MASSEMBLY-972] - Upgrade maven-plugin parent to 39 * [MASSEMBLY-978] - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.5.1 * [MASSEMBLY-979] - Bump maven-common-artifact-filters from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 * [MASSEMBLY-981] - Bump log4j from 1.x to 2.x in integration tests * [MASSEMBLY-982] - drop dependency to maven-compat * [MASSEMBLY-987] - Bump plexus-archiver from 4.6.0 to 4.7.1 Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team