4.0.0

• Breaking Change! Restrict Plugin to Gradle 4.0+. Shadow major versions will align with Gradle major versions going forward.
• Breaking Change! For clarity purposes com.github.johnrengelman.plugin-shadow has been removed. If you intend to use this feature, you will need to declare your own ConfigureShadowRelocation task. See section 2.9.2 of the User Guide
• Sergey Tselovalnikov - Upgrade to ASM 6.2.1 to support Java 11
• Chris Cowan - Add support for shadowJar.preserveFileTimestamps property. See Jar.preserveFileTimestamps
• Paul N. Baker - Add Log4j2PluginsCacheFileTransformer to process Log4j DAT files during merge.
• Felipe Lima - Fix the long standing "No property mainClassName" issue.
• debanne - Implement JAR minimization actions. This will attempt to exclude unused classes in your shadowed JAR.
• Configure exclusion of module-info.class from shadowJar when using the Shadow the Java plugin, #352

2.0.4

• Update to ASM 6.1.1 to address performance issues - https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/issues/317816
• Close InputStreams after using them Issue #364
• Remove usage of Gradle internal AbstractFileCollection.
• Add task annotations to remove warnings when validating plugin.

2.0.3

• https://github.com/ttsiebzehntt - Update to ASM 6.1
• https://github.com/sgnewson - Fix deprecated Gradle warnings https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/pull/356

2.0.2

• Ben Adazza, Tyler Benson - documentation
• Marke Vieira - Support multi-project builds with Build-Scan integration
• Upgrade to ASM 6 Issue #294, Issue #303
• Rob Spieldenner - Fix integration with application plugin in Gradle 4.3 Issues #339
• Fixed deprecation warning from Gradle 4.2+ Issue #326

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• Fix null+configuration error (Issue #297)

2.0.0

• Breaking Change! Restrict Plugin to Gradle 3.0+
• Breaking Change! Build with Java 7
• Breaking Change! Updated Transformer interface to accept TransformerContext object instead of individual values
• Breaking Change! Updated Relocator interface to accept RelocatePathContext and RelocateClassContext objects
• Breaking Change! Distribution tasks distShadowZip and distShadowTar have been removed and replaced with the standard shadowDistZip and shadowDistTar from the Gradle Distribution plugin.
• Breaking Change! The installShadowApp task has been removed and replaced with the standard installShadowDist task from the Gradle Distribution plugin.
• Breaking Change! The new installShadowDist task outputs to build/install/<project name>-shadow per the standard (formerly was build/installShadow)
• Breaking Change! component.shadow removed in favor of project.shadow.component(publication) so as to remove dependency on internal Gradle APIs.
• NEW Introducing ConfigureShadowRelocation task and com.github.johnrengelman.plugin-shadow plugin to automatically configure package relocation for Gradle plugins.
• NEW Integration with Gradle Build Scans. When running a ShadowJar task with Build Scans, custom values including dependencies merged anc package relocations are published in the scan.
• Build Shadow w/ Shadow. This will help prevent any future classpath conflicts with Gradle.
• Replace startShadowScripts tasks with Gradle's built-in CreateStartScripts type.
• Build with Gradle 3.1
• Marc Philipp - Add keyTransformer property to PropertiesFileTransformer
• Update to ASM 5.2
• Piotr Kubowicz - Support api, implementation, runtimeOnly dependency configurations introdcued in Gradle 3.3

1.2.4

• Don't resolve dependency configurations during config phase (Issue #128)
• Build plugin with Gradle 2.14
• Fix docs regarding inheriting Jar manifest (Issue #251)
• https://github.com/ethankhall[Ethan Hall] - Support projects that configure uploading to Ivy repositories (Pull Request #256)
• Force task to depend on dependency configuration (Issue #152)
• Do not explode ZIP files into shadow jar (Issue #196)
• John Szakmeister - Preserve timestamps on merged jar entries (Pull Request #260)

1.2.3

• Support for Gradle 2.11-rc-1 (Issue #177)
• Convert internal framework to Gradle TestKit
• Fedor Korotkov - Use BufferedOutputStream when writing the Zip file (PR #171)
• Haw-Bin Chai - Quote Jar path in Windows start script as it may contain spaces (PR #170)
• Serban Iordache - Evaluate relocation specs when merging service descriptors (PR #165)

1.2.2

• Minecrell Gradle 2.5 compatibility (Issue #147)

1.2.1

• Apply package relocations to dependency resources (Issue #114)