April 10th marks the anniversary of JReleaser’s first release. I’m ecstatic to announce JReleaser has reached 5 years since its first release and 4 since it posted its 1.0.0 release. The tool keeps posting releases like clockwork, every second month, on even months, at the end of the month. This means there are at least 6 releases per year. New features were added, making the tool more flexible and customizable. JReleaser can make the following claims in the last 12 months: The number of contributors has been raised to 109. The number of stargazers is now up to 1213. Tighter Read More

JReleaser v1.23.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.23.0 milestone. This is a small release with a handful of fixes and just a couple of new features. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors as well. Version CHRONVER now accepts a lenient format. Time elements may or may not use a separator. For example, the following version strings "20260228" and "2026.02.28" both resolve to February 28th, 2026. Maven All Maven MOJOs now accept a generic jreleaser.skip property to skip their behavior, useful in multi-module builds where you’d like JReleaser to be Read More

JReleaser v1.22.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.22.0 milestone. This is a small release with a handful of fixes and just a couple of new features. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors as well. Sign The signing section has been overhauled. You may now sign artifacts using multiple methods simultaneously. Also, minisign is now supported. Note that signing commits and deployments to Maven Central still required PGP signatures. Deploy Deploying artifacts to Maven Central required waiting for the deployment to be fully published before continuing the next step. Often Read More

JReleaser v1.21.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.21.0 milestone. This is a small release with a handful of fixes and just a couple of new features. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors as well. Announce Release announcements may now be posted to Reddit. Reddit is the latest announcer added to the list of supported announce targets. Signing You may now use a GPG agent when signing artifacts. Additional updates and fixes when the signing mode is set to COMMAND. Release GitHub’s immutable releases are now supported. Be aware that Read More

JReleaser v1.19.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.19.0 milestone. This release adds a new flag, yolo, that allows skipping misconfigured sections without breaking the release process. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors as well. Core The yolo flag allows JReleaser to skip a section that may be misconfigured or has missing information as secrets or tokens? Why would you want something like this? Say you have a generic release configuration for deployment, releasing, and package publication. There may be times when you just want to deploy to a Maven Read More

JReleaser v1.18.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.18.0 milestone. This release adds support for Nexus3 as a Maven deployer. It also welcomes Forgejo as a releaser, uploader, and deployer. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors as well. Deploy Nexus3 becomes a supported deployer. There’s no supported for staged deployments for this deployer. The guide has been updated with sample code for deploying snapshot released to Maven Central. Release Forgejo may be used as a releaser, deployer, and/or uploader. Codeberg support has been migrated from Gitea to Forgejo. Package You Read More

JReleaser v1.17.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.17.0 milestone. This release enhances the use of the recently added matrix section. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors as well. Core The matrix may now be used to parameterize distributions, as well as the jlink and nativeImage assemblers. Build Given that GitHub Actions now offers managed linux-arm servers for everyone the build can now publish linux-aarch64 native executables of the CLI. Announce A few updates added to the Linkedin announcer, simplifying its usage. As always, feedback is welcomed, feel free to Read More