prepare for 6.0.0 release

gradle/dependencies.gradle

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ dependencies {
     shadow 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-backports-compat23:2.4.15'
 
     implementation 'org.jdom:jdom2:2.0.6'
-    implementation 'org.ow2.asm:asm:7.3.1'
-    implementation 'org.ow2.asm:asm-commons:7.3.1'
+    implementation 'org.ow2.asm:asm:8.0.1'
+    implementation 'org.ow2.asm:asm-commons:8.0.1'
     implementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.5'
     implementation 'org.apache.ant:ant:1.9.7'
     implementation 'org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:3.0.24'

src/docs/changes/README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 # Change Log
-## v6.0.0 (2020-03-07)
+## v6.0.0 (2020-06-15)
 * Required Gradle 6.0+
+* *NEW*: Support for Gradle Metadata publication via the `shadowRuntimeElements` configuration. This is a _beta_ feature
+  the hasn't been tested extensively. Feedback is appreciated.
 * Fix Gradle 7 deprecation warnings [#530](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/530)
+* Fix to generated start script to correctly use `optsEnvironmentVar`[#518](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/commit/7e99c02957773205c3babdd23f4bbf883330c975)
 * [Yahor Berdnikau](https://github.com/Tapchicoma) - Fix issues with Gradle API being embedded into published JAR [#527](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/527)
-* [Dmitry Vyazelenko](https://github.com/vyazelenko) - ASM updates to support latest Java verisons [#549](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/pull/549)
+* [Dmitry Vyazelenko](https://github.com/vyazelenko) - ASM updates to support latest Java versions [#549](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/pull/549)
 * [ejjcase](https://github.com/ejjcase) - Support exposing shadowed project dependencies via POM [#543](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/pull/543)
 * [Artem Chubaryan](https://github.com/Armaxis) - Performance optimizations [#535](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/pull/535)
 * [Trask Stalnaker](https://github.com/trask) - Fix exclude patterns on Windows [#539](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/pull/539)