[ANN] Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 3.1.1 Released

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

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the 
Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 3.1.1
 
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/

Important Note since 3.1.1:

 * Maven 3.X only

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:
 
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.1</version>
</plugin>

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page:
 
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/download.cgi
 
Release Notes Maven Shade Plugin 3.1.0

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317921&version=12341390


Bugs:

 * [MSHADE-273] - Shading of paths starting with / ignores excludes
 * [MSHADE-275] - Maven Shade Plugin does not work under Java 10

Improvements:

 * [MSHADE-277] - Identify issue related IT failure mini-jar-malformed-dependencies/pom.xml
 * [MSHADE-278] - Print out the jar responsible for exceptions like "Error creating shaded jar: invalid LOC header (bad signature)"
 * [MSHADE-283] - Add documentation information for GitHub

Dependency upgrades:

 * [MSHADE-276] - Upgrade parent to 31
 * [MSHADE-279] - Upgrade mave-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0
 * [MSHADE-280] - Upgrade jdom 1.1.3 to jdom2 2.0.6
 * [MSHADE-281] - Upgrade plexus-utils 3.1.0
 * [MSHADE-282] - Remove not used directories rel-path-test-files


Many thanks to all reporters/contributors/testers of this release.

Reporters:

 * MSHADE-273: Eugene Kirpichov
 * MSHADE-275: Markus Grech
 * MSHADE-278: Gary Gregory


Testers:

 * Markus Grech
 * Rafael Winterhalter

Enjoy
 
- The Apache Maven team