The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Jar Plugin, version 2.6

This plugin provides the capability to build jars.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/

<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> </plugin>

Release Notes - Maven JAR Plugin - Version 2.6

Bugs:

* [MJAR-135] - encoding problem with folder-names * [MJAR-151] - Error assembling JAR on OS X * [MJAR-179] - Adding empty files to jar failed with a ZipException : bad CRC

checksum * [MJAR-185] - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7.1 * [MJAR-188] - maven-jar-plugin is very slow on machines with slow Unix group

lookups * [MJAR-189] - Upgrade plexus-archiver dependency to v2.9

Improvements:

* [MJAR-178] - Change information on site * [MJAR-180] - Upgrade to Maven 2.2.1 compatiblity * [MJAR-181] - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a

component. * [MJAR-182] - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.6.3 * [MJAR-184] - Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7 * [MJAR-186] - Upgrade maven-plugins-testing-harness from 1.2 to 1.3 * [MJAR-187] - Upgrade maven-archiver to 2.6 * [MJAR-190] - Upgrade to maven-plugins version 25 to 26 * [MJAR-191] - Upgrade to maven-plugins parent version 27

Enjoy,

- The Apache Maven team