[ANN] Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 2.4 Released

[Karl Heinz Marbaise <kh...@apache.org>]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the 
Apache Maven Shade Version 2.4

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.

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

Release Notes - Apache Maven Shade - Version 2.4

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317921&version=12331393

Bugs:

 * [MSHADE-155] - dependency-reduced-pom should use shadedArtifactId
 * [MSHADE-169] - Typos in warning message
 * [MSHADE-172] - "java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero" in MinijarFilter
 * [MSHADE-174] - Unable to shade Java 8 jarfiles with static interface methods using minimizeJar
 * [MSHADE-183] - Getting "Error creating shaded jar: java.util.jar.Attributes cannot be 
                  cast to java.lang.String" error when using ManifestResourceTransformer with Maven 3.2.5
 * [MSHADE-185] - systemPath content is interpolated for system dependencies

Improvements:

 * [MSHADE-177] - MavenProject/MavenSession Injection as a paremeter instead as a component.
 * [MSHADE-178] - Removing plexus-container-default dependency
 * [MSHADE-179] - Fix RAT Report
 * [MSHADE-180] - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.18
 * [MSHADE-188] - Upgrade maven-dependency-tree to 2.2
 * [MSHADE-191] - Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.22
 * [MSHADE-192] - Upgrade maven-invoker to 1.10
 * [MSHADE-193] - Upgrade to fluido skin 1.4.0

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team