The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Assembly Plugin, version 2.2-beta-2
This plugin is used to build custom archives, such as those used to
distribute project releases.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/
You can run mvn -up to get the latest version of the plugin, or specify
the version in your project's plugin configuration (recommended):
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-2</version>
</plugin>
Release Notes - Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin - Version 2.2-beta-2
(See: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?
projectId=11126&styleName=Text&version=14027)
** Bug
* [MASSEMBLY-121] - Custom manifest attributres are ignored.
* [MASSEMBLY-129] - BaseDirectory Ignored When Including a
Repository
* [MASSEMBLY-156] - appendAssemblyId cannot be false
* [MASSEMBLY-162] - In a multiproject environment, assembly
takes wrong dependencies
* [MASSEMBLY-163] - In a multiproject environment Assembly
causes many unneded rebuilds
* [MASSEMBLY-178] - filtering doesn't read filter files
* [MASSEMBLY-179] - Assembled jar includes artifact names in path
* [MASSEMBLY-180] - A bug in artifact filtering ( maven-common-
artifact-filters )
* [MASSEMBLY-183] - assembly:attached does not work with filter-
ERROR: Cannot override read-only parameter
* [MASSEMBLY-184] - components are not interpolated - i.e., $
{params} are not substituted
* [MASSEMBLY-188] - manifestEntries are not set in resulting jar
* [MASSEMBLY-189] - plugin not correctly interpolating POM
variables like project.build.directory
* [MASSEMBLY-194] - unnecessary dependency expansion regression
* [MASSEMBLY-195] - unpackOptions ignored
* [MASSEMBLY-197] - 2.2-beta-1 regression, project artifact no
longer included in
* [MASSEMBLY-208] - Assembly plugin does not resolve version
ranges correctly
* [MASSEMBLY-210] - repository does not include the parent pom
* [MASSEMBLY-212] - Assembly Descriptor Schemas (XSD) have wrong
targetNamespace
* [MASSEMBLY-214] - java.lang.NullPointerException: version was
null for junit:junit
* [MASSEMBLY-221] - Filtering doesn't work when a file matches
both a <fileSet> and a <file>
* [MASSEMBLY-222] - 2.2-beta-1 regression in assembly descriptor
interpolation
* [MASSEMBLY-223] - 2-nd <exclude> element of
<dependencySets>:<excludes> doesn't work
* [MASSEMBLY-225] - Not a v4.0.0 POM
* [MASSEMBLY-226] - Filters as read-only parameter can break the
assembly build of a multi-module project
* [MASSEMBLY-232] - NPE - MASSEMBLY-222 fix broken?
* [MASSEMBLY-233] - Custom ContainerDescriptorHandler
integration tests don't work in Maven 2.0.7
* [MASSEMBLY-234] - Artifacts not deployed
* [MASSEMBLY-235] - dependencySet ignores dependency management
* [MASSEMBLY-250] - Trunk of assembly plugin broken and not in
synch with deployed 2.2-beta2-SNAPSHOT ?
* [MASSEMBLY-254] - Not a v4.0.0 POM Still an Issue
* [MASSEMBLY-257] - OutOfMemoryError when assembling large
binary file
* [MASSEMBLY-262] - unit fail in trunk on windows (need upgrade
of plexus-utils)
* [MASSEMBLY-266] - Property expansion does not work for $
{project.build.finalName} in descriptor file
* [MASSEMBLY-277] - NullPointerException
* [MASSEMBLY-282] - Fix failing IT no-appendAssemblyId-no-
classifier
** Improvement
* [MASSEMBLY-136] - outputDirectory to support absolute paths
* [MASSEMBLY-142] - Should be able to use artifact version as
variable in <outputDirectory>
* [MASSEMBLY-152] - Support Ant token
* [MASSEMBLY-154] - FileSet does not support filtering
* [MASSEMBLY-182] - document behavior when two sources selected
for single archived file
* [MASSEMBLY-258] - Sync usage guide with Maven standard
directory layout
* [MASSEMBLY-261] - Use plexus-archiver 1.0-alpha-10
* [MASSEMBLY-267] - Configure surefire to redirect test output
to file
* [MASSEMBLY-274] - descriptorSourceDirectory should only scan
for xml files.
* [MASSEMBLY-275] - Use properties to select IT pom includes
* [MASSEMBLY-278] - Do not fail on missing descriptors
* [MASSEMBLY-279] - Small improvement to error messages
** New Feature
* [MASSEMBLY-73] - Sharing a default assembly descriptor across
sub modules
* [MASSEMBLY-243] - Support for patching
** Task
* [MASSEMBLY-283] - Fix IT dependencySet-unpackedExcludingMetaInf
Enjoy,
-The Maven team
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John Casey
Committer and PMC Member, Apache Maven
mail: jdcasey at commonjava dot org
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