[ANN] Maven Shade Plugin 1.3.1 Released

[Benjamin Bentmann <be...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Shade 
Plugin, version 1.3.1.

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an 
uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the 
packages of some of the dependencies. Please see the plugin's site for 
more details:

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

To use the updated plugin in your projects, you need to add the 
following snippet to the plugins or plugin management section of your POM:

   <plugin>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>1.3.1</version>
   </plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Shade Plugin - Version 1.3.1

** Bug
     * [MSHADE-59] - XmlAppendingTransformer fails when running behind a 
firewall
     * [MSHADE-72] - Classes from current artifact are excluded when 
explicit shaded includes are provided


Enjoy,


-The Maven team