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org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin

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Builds a Java Archive (JAR) file from the compiled project classes and resources.

Last release 2 months ago
23 Jul 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 9 days to 2.2 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 7 of 24 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
20 years old
27 releases · first in 2006

Release timeline

27 releases since 2006

2006200820102012

Releases

4.0.0-beta-126 Jun 2024pre-release
Warning This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.0.0-beta-3 to run.
Warning
This plugin is a Maven 4 plugin and requires Maven 4.0.0-beta-3 to run.

What's Changed

[MJAR-311] Switch to the Maven 4 API by @gnodet in #70

Fix license/notice by @gnodet in #94

Bump org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api from 5.10.1 to 5.10.2 by @dependabot in #91

Build with JDK 17 and 21 in Jenkins by @gnodet in #95

Add missing provided dependencies by @gnodet in #93

New Contributors

@gnodet made their first contribution in #70

Full Changelog: maven-jar-plugin-3.4.2...maven-jar-plugin-4.0.0-beta-1

3.5.123 Jul 2026

Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability ( #550 ) @potiuk

📝 Documentation updates

Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability (#550) @potiuk

👻 Maintenance

Add AGENTS.md + SECURITY.md security-model pointer for scanner discoverability (#550) @potiuk
Use plugin version properties (3.x) (#535) @Bukama

📦 Dependency updates

Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 48 to 49 (#547) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.11.0 to 4.12.0 (#538) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.15 to 3.9.16 (#536) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 47 to 48 (#534) @dependabot[bot]
Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.21.0 to 2.22.0 (#529) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.14 to 3.9.15 (#528) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.12 to 3.9.14 (#526) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 (#523) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 46 to 47 (#519) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.10.4 to 4.11.0 (#516) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-plugin-testing-harness from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 (#517) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 45 to 46 (#514) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven:maven-archiver from 3.6.5 to 3.6.6 (#511) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.11 to 3.9.12 (#509) @dependabot[bot]

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3.5.011 Nov 2025

🚀 New features and improvements

Add new "attach" configuration parameter (3.x port of #482) (#483) @hgschmie
add Java-Version to MANIFEST.MF (#465) @hboutemy

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fix detecting java version for toolchains and JDK 1.8 (#500) @slawekjaranowski
Ignore stderr when parsing javac version from toolchain (#471) @jaredstehler

👻 Maintenance

Update site descriptor to 2.0.0 (#501) @slawekjaranowski
chore: remove junit3 references (#494) @slawekjaranowski
Migrate component injection to JSR-330 (#492) @slawekjaranowski
Add PR Automation to 3.x (#132) @slawekjaranowski
Improve release-drafter configuration (#128) @slawekjaranowski
Fix for Maven 4.0.0-rc-3 (#130) @slawekjaranowski
[MNGSITE-529] - Rename "Goals" to "Plugin Documentation" (#119) @Bukama

🔧 Build

Bump m-invoker-p to 3.9.1 for Java 25 (#480) @hboutemy

📦 Dependency updates

Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0 (#499) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.10.3 to 4.10.4 (#498) @dependabot[bot]
Use maven-plugin-testing-harness version 3.4.0 (#491) @slawekjaranowski
Bump org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations from 3.15.1 to 3.15.2 (#488) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.10.1 to 4.10.3 (#478) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.10.0 to 4.10.1 (#464) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 42 to 45 (#452) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven:maven-archiver from 3.6.2 to 3.6.4 (#461) @dependabot[bot]
Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 (#457) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.10 to 3.9.11 (#456) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.9.9 to 3.9.10 (#146) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.apache.maven.shared:file-management from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 (#143) @dependabot[bot]
Bump mavenVersion from 3.6.3 to 3.9.9 (#107) @dependabot[bot]
Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.18.0 to 2.19.0 (#140) @dependabot[bot]
Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.1 to 2.18.0 (#114) @dependabot[bot]
Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver from 4.9.2 to 4.10.0 (#109) @dependabot[bot]

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3.4.116 Apr 2024

[MJAR-307] - Wrong version of commons-io cause a ClassNotFound o.a.commons.io.file.attribute.FileTimes ( #83 ) @slawekjaranowski

🐛 Bug Fixes

[MJAR-307] - Wrong version of commons-io cause a ClassNotFound o.a.commons.io.file.attribute.FileTimes (#83) @slawekjaranowski

📦 Dependency updates

[MJAR-308] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 41 to 42 (#85) @dependabot

Open source →

3.4.09 Apr 2024

🚀 New features and improvements

[MJAR-296] - Allow including files excluded by default. (#67) @redzi
[MJAR-302] - Require Maven 3.6.3 (#77) @slawekjaranowski
[MJAR-292] - Detect MRJAR and add Multi-Release manifest entry (#57) @jorsol

🐛 Bug Fixes

[MJAR-62] - Set Build-Jdk according to used toolchain (#73) @slawekjaranowski

📦 Dependency updates

[MJAR-306] - Use properties for plugins versions in LifecycleMapping (#82) @slawekjaranowski
Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.10.1 to 5.10.2 (#74) @dependabot
[MJAR-298] - Update Maven-Archiver to 3.6.2 (#78) @slawekjaranowski
Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 2 to 4 (#72) @dependabot
Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.14.0 to 2.15.1 (#68) @dependabot
[MJAR-297] - Update Parent to 40 (#64) @jorsol
[MJAR-298] - Update Maven-Archiver to 3.6.1 (#65) @jorsol
[MJAR-293] - Update Parent to 39 (#59) @jorsol

👻 Maintenance

[MJAR-304] - Refresh download page (#80) @slawekjaranowski
[MJAR-303] - Cleanup declared dependencies (#79) @slawekjaranowski
Remove dependency on plexus (#63) @elharo

Open source →

3.3.012 Sept 2022

🚀 New features and improvements

[MJAR-278] - Update plugin (requires Maven 3.2.5+) (#19) @cstamas
[MJAR-280] - Java 8 minimum (#29) @olamy

🐛 Bug Fixes

[MJAR-275] - Fix outputTimestamp not applied to module-info; breaks reproducible builds (#43) @jorsol

📦 Dependency updates

[MJAR-290] - Update Plexus Utils to 3.4.2 (#48) @jorsol
[MJAR-291] - Upgrade Parent to 37 (#50) @jorsol
Bump junit from 4.11 to 4.13.1 in /src/it/MJAR-228 (#39) @dependabot
Bump plexus-utils from 3.3.1 to 3.4.2 (#42) @dependabot
[MJAR-288] - Upgrade Parent to 36 (#40) @slawekjaranowski

📝 Documentation updates

Restore mavenArchiverVersion property used in the site (#51) @jorsol
(doc) Updated create-test-jar.apt.vm removing 'and' in Maven site Create Test JAR documentation (#34) @focbenz

👻 Maintenance

use shared action v3 (#49) @olamy
Code simplifications in AbstractMojo (#47) @rhowe

Open source →

3.2.28 Jan 2022

[ MJAR-260 ] Fail on invalid automatic module name by @sormuras in #3

What's Changed

[MJAR-260] Fail on invalid automatic module name by @sormuras in #3
[MNGSITE-393] remove more pre Maven 3 content by @elharo in #8
compat not needed by @elharo in #10
ignore .checkstyle by @elharo in #12
Two minor dependency updates by @elharo in #11
simplify test by @elharo in #13
fix link to issue tracker by @elharo in #14
update minimum Maven version to 3.1.0 by @elharo in #15
docs: grammar by @elharo in #18
Bump maven-shared-utils from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 by @dependabot in #20
Bump plexus-archiver from 4.2.3 to 4.2.5 by @dependabot in #23
use shared gh action by @olamy in #24
Bump junit from 4.13 to 4.13.2 by @dependabot in #25
use shared gh action - v1 by @slawekjaranowski in #28
Bump maven-archiver from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 by @dependabot in #27

New Contributors

@sormuras made their first contribution in #3
@elharo made their first contribution in #8
@dependabot made their first contribution in #20
@olamy made their first contribution in #24
@slawekjaranowski made their first contribution in #28

Full Changelog: https://github.com/apache/maven-jar-plugin/commits/maven-jar-plugin-3.2.2

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