Hi, The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.0.0 The Assembly Plugin for Maven is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files into a single distributable archive. 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>3.0.0</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 3.0.0 ** Bug * [MASSEMBLY-756] - escapeString doesn't work correctly for the 2nd filtering * [MASSEMBLY-773] - MetaInfServicesHandler catalog is not cleared between invocations in multimodule projects * [MASSEMBLY-777] - The assembly plugin refuses to copy a file named lexicon.filtered or lexicon.formatted * [MASSEMBLY-789] - assembly:single with repacking tar.gz results in UndeclaredThrowableException * [MASSEMBLY-802] - Dependencies version conflict leads to run-time exception when creating archive * [MASSEMBLY-824] - Use of appendAssemblyId and finalName can cause problems * [MASSEMBLY-829] - fileMode on a dependencySet with unpack does not work * [MASSEMBLY-834] - Maven assembly plugin fails with Java 9 * [MASSEMBLY-836] - Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki ** Improvement * [MASSEMBLY-704] - Remove all goals which are marked deprecated * [MASSEMBLY-770] - List of XSD's on the main site is cluttered. * [MASSEMBLY-790] - Upgrade maven-archiver/maven-filtering/maven-common-artifact-filters to 3.0.0 * [MASSEMBLY-792] - Expose merge manifest mode from the plexus archiver * [MASSEMBLY-793] - Remove cluttering System.out.println statements * [MASSEMBLY-795] - Upgrade file-management to 3.0.0 * [MASSEMBLY-796] - Upgrade maven-shared-io to 3.0.0 * [MASSEMBLY-797] - Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 * [MASSEMBLY-801] - Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.3 to 3.1 * [MASSEMBLY-807] - Upgrade maven-plugins to version 30 * [MASSEMBLY-808] - Upgrade of 'plexus-archiver' to version 3.3. * [MASSEMBLY-810] - Upgrade com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305 to 3.0.0 * [MASSEMBLY-813] - Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.1.0 * [MASSEMBLY-814] - Upgrade maven-filtering to 3.1.1 * [MASSEMBLY-817] - Make finalName readonly parameter * [MASSEMBLY-818] - Remove deprecated parameters for the single goal * [MASSEMBLY-819] - Update to release version if Maven Artifact Transfer Component released? * [MASSEMBLY-823] - Documentation refers to deprecated goals ** New Feature * [MASSEMBLY-780] - Snappy supported ** Task * [MASSEMBLY-744] - Use the same namespace pattern for assembly/component format as the rest of Maven * [MASSEMBLY-745] - Give the component format schema file a better name * [MASSEMBLY-794] - Update and revise documentation for 3.0.0 release * [MASSEMBLY-804] - Dependency updates. * [MASSEMBLY-806] - Use new Modello home in MDO files * [MASSEMBLY-816] - Fix problem with building Maven site * [MASSEMBLY-820] - Upgrade of plexus-archiver to 3.4. * [MASSEMBLY-821] - Upgrade of maven-archiver to 3.1.1. * [MASSEMBLY-837] - Revise features page on site Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team