From: John Casey &lt;jdcasey(a)commonjava.org&gt; Date: June 5, 2009 10:35:04 PM CEDT To: Maven Users List &lt;users(a)maven.apache.org&gt;rg>, announce(a)maven.apache.org Subject: [ANN] Maven Assembly Plugin 2.2-beta-4 released Reply-To: "Maven Users List" &lt;users(a)maven.apache.org&gt; The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Assembly Plugin, version 2.2-beta-4. This plugin is useful in creating project artifacts that custom layouts. It also includes a set of predefined standard custom artifact types you can choose to create. For more information, see: 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>2.2-beta-4</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin - Version 2.2-beta-4 ** Bug * [MASSEMBLY-238] - Assembly plugin removes file permissions

* [MASSEMBLY-379] - Follow-up: file permissions are removed when creating tar.gz assembly * [MASSEMBLY-413] - Assembly plugin uses absolute paths from project instance after interpolation * [MASSEMBLY-414] - Allow regular expressions in include/exclude patterns for filesets * [MASSEMBLY-416] - outputDirectory default value in fileSet seems changed; now seems to use directory name of fileSet sourcedir * [MASSEMBLY-417] - regex in/exclusion patterns can fail on Windows due to file-separator replacement. * [MASSEMBLY-418] - Broken link to assembly-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT.xsd * [MASSEMBLY-419] - All module directories are included with complete system path ** Improvement * [MASSEMBLY-421] - Maven repository layout like directory structure using dependencySet Enjoy, -The Maven team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe(a)maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help(a)maven.apache.org