Andres Almiray

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

Since the early days JReleaser has had 2 release paths: fast & slow. The fast path is the early-access release, posted every time a commit is pushed to the main branch. This type of release allows early adopters to test out new features as soon as they are added to the main branch. Consumers of the jreleaser/release-action GitHub Action can take advantage of the version property exposed by said action to select this release. Early Access releases are intended to be downloaded manually as they might be unstable and as such only CLI related artifacts are posted. There are NO Read More

JReleaser v1.2.0 has just been released! I’m quite excited about this release as it brings a feature that’s been brewing for a long time, even before 1.0.0 came out: execution hooks. But, wait there’s more! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.2.0 milestone. We’ve also merged contributions from 4 new contributors: Margarita Nedzelska, Alexius Diakogiannis, Guillaume Smet, Aiden Turner. Execution Hooks JReleaser follows a series of steps when creating a release. Command hooks let you invoke external commands before and/or after each step is executed. With this feature in place you may invoke arbitrary commands that Read More

JReleaser v1.1.0 has just been released! This is the first feature release after v1.0.0 and it comes with a few goodies. The following sections describe new capabilities offered by this release. Download One of JReleaser’s core tenets is enabling releases to be posted from a local environment as a complement to performing this task at a CI or remote environment. For this to work all behavior configured on CI must also be available on a local environment. The newly added Download step lets you download files (assembly assets, templates, etc) from different sources such as FTP, HTTP, SCP, and SFTP. Read More

The day has come. JReleaser v1.0.0 is here! I’m beyond ecstatic to post this announcement as this release is the culmination of multiple efforts made by all contributors, taking into account feedback received by several early adopters, some of which can be seen here. Remember that all deprecated code has been removed, we recommend upgrading to v1.0.0-M3 first to find out if your build uses deprecated features before moving to v1.0.0. There is one more thing to mention, this release coincides with v0.1.0 which was posted exactly 1 year ago 🥳🤩 Lots of features have been added to the tool Read More