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From: John Casey <[email protected]> Date: June 5, 2009 10:35:04 PM CEDT To: Maven Users List <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: [ANN] Maven Assembly Plugin 2.2-beta-4 released Reply-To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]>

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

this is useful for us. We can remove some todos from our pom files. -Vincent

* [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

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