[ANN] Maven Jar Plugin 1.8 for Maven 1.x released

[Lukas Theussl <lt...@apache.org>]

We are pleased to announce the Maven Jar Plugin 1.8 release!

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/jar/

Plugin for creating JAR files.

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Changes in this version include:

   New Features:

o Add tests for jar manifest creation. Fixes MPJAR-19.
o Include Implementation-Vendor-Id attribute for dependencies in manifest.
   Fixes MPJAR-15. Thanks to Matt Finn.
o Support specificationVersion in manifest. Fixes MPJAR-39.

   Fixed bugs:

o Using maven.jar.manifest.classpath.add=true from maven console gives huge
   Class-Path. Fixes MPJAR-46.
o Jar plugin generates incorrect manifest file. Fixes MPJAR-36 and 
MPJAR-49.
   Thanks to Michael Gaffney.
o java:compile and java:jar-resources should be called before the jar 
goal to
   create the good directory structure. It was done in test:test before but
   it's also a prerequisite for jar:jar.

   Changes:

o Remove unused properties from documentation. Fixes MPJAR-47.
o Document need for jar.manifest.classpath property. Fixes MPJAR-35. Thanks
   to Dennis Lundberg.
o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them
   between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : velocity
   v1.4-dev -> v1.4 Fixes MAVEN-1712.
o It requires at least maven-plugin-plugin v1.7.

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
 
-Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://cvs.apache.org/repository/
   -DgroupId=maven
   -DartifactId=maven-jar-plugin
   -Dversion=1.8

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-jar-plugin-1.8.jar


Have fun!
-The Maven Jar Plugin development team

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