April 10th marks JReleaser’s second birthday! And I couldn’t be happier. The project has grown a lot since that fateful afternoon when Max and I were chatting on different options to release projects. It went down like this: Max spent a lot of time and energy getting JBang’s release process up to a point where he was happy with it, and I needed a way to replicate the same for Ikonli but was not looking forward to the amount of work required to make it happen. Instead, I wished there was a way to automate as much as possible, just Read More

JReleaser v1.5.1 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.5.1 milestone. This is a patch release that only includes bug fixes, mainly affecting assemblers, the Docker packager, and SINGLE_JAR distributions. Special thanks go to Benjamin Marwell (🐦@bmarwell, 🐘@bmarwell) and Christian Stein (🐦@sormuras, 🐘@sormuras) for filing bugs and advice to get JReleaser up to speed with Java modules. Java Modules It all started with a simple question from Benjamin: does the java-archive assembler support creating launchers for modular Java applications? I thought it did. We had a look at the sources and well, something Read More

JReleaser v1.5.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.5.0 milestone. This release brings several updates related to setting model properties via environment variables and/or system properties. Additionally, Winget joins the list of supported package managers. Bug fixes and plenty of build enhancements are also included. Environment Several properties may now be set using either System Properties or environment variables; review the Environment section of each DSL element in the Reference. Additionally, local .env files may be used to define environment variables. A new env command may be used to display System property Read More

JReleaser v1.4.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.4.0 milestone. This release adds a new distribution type (FLAT_BINARY), a new assembler (java-archive), updates to Docker support, and more! This release includes contributions made at Luzern Hackergarten as well as Hack.Commit.Push. Distribution New flat-binary distribution may be used to release binaries without packaging them in archives. Several package managers support this new distribution type. Deployment Adjustments to Nexus2 support now let you deploy snapshot artifacts to Nexus2 servers and Maven Central. Few other updates were made to support multi-project deployments and projects without Read More