[ANN] Maven Assembly Plugin 2.4 Released

[Dennis Lundberg <de...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Assembly Plugin, version 2.4

A Maven plugin to create archives of your project's sources, classes, dependencies etc. from flexible assembly descriptors.

http://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>2.4</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven Assembly Plugin - Version 2.4

Bug
* [MASSEMBLY-636] Directory permissions still not correct for dirs created by dependencySet
* [MASSEMBLY-633] Misspelled expression/property for parameter updateOnly
* [MASSEMBLY-629] Explanation of default value for useAllReactorProjects is at best confusing, possibly wrong
* [MASSEMBLY-626] NullPointerException in PlexusIoURLResource.getContents
* [MASSEMBLY-621] directoryMode not enforced
* [MASSEMBLY-620] The dependencySet/includes/include format is documented incorrectly
* [MASSEMBLY-608] Missing XML tag <plugins> in example documentation
* [MASSEMBLY-604] Please document <format>dir</format>
* [MASSEMBLY-602] Multiple Assemblies Causes Infinite Loop\Recursion
* [MASSEMBLY-599] Mistake in javadoc for dependencySet/includes
* [MASSEMBLY-591] Empty classifier in dependency causes extra dash
* [MASSEMBLY-567] Version wildcard in dependencySet include does not work
* [MASSEMBLY-553] Assembly plugin does not inherit configuration/execution from parent
* [MASSEMBLY-549] StackOverflowError while creating assembly
* [MASSEMBLY-449] Permissions on directories in a zipped archive incorrect
* [MASSEMBLY-422] Generated directories have wrong file attributes
* [MASSEMBLY-371] Converting line endings corrupts ISO-8859-1 files when platform encoding is UTF-8
* [MASSEMBLY-96] using fileSet -> lineEnding will always put the selected lineEnding at the end of the file, even if the original file does not end in one

Improvement
* [MASSEMBLY-634] Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
* [MASSEMBLY-631] "Using Component Descriptors" page uses deprecated assembly goal
* [MASSEMBLY-627] use last plexus-utils 3.0.7 which is faster on copying files.
* [MASSEMBLY-623] Assembly documentation does not list all supported formats
* [MASSEMBLY-611] Documentation unclear in Usage > Configuration (part 2)
* [MASSEMBLY-610] Documentation unclear in the Usage > Configuration section
* [MASSEMBLY-546] Cannot supply escapeString for filtering
* [MASSEMBLY-532] Documentation has parts reversed for full include/exclude patterns in dependencySet

New Feature
* [MASSEMBLY-630] Add recompressZippedFiles support to assembly

Task
* [MASSEMBLY-635] Update to maven-filtering:1.1
* [MASSEMBLY-618] use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations


Enjoy,

-The Maven team

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