Andres Almiray

JReleaser v1.11.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.11.0 milestone. This is mostly a fix release with a handful of enhancements, most notably staged deployments to Maven Central (via Nexus2) and SWID tag support. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors. Deploy Nexus2 now enables staged deployments, useful for splitting deployments in UPLOAD, CLOSE, and RELEASE stages. Projects that rely on a voting process between staged artifacts and a final release can leverage this feature. Assemble All assemblers (except JPackage) support generating SWID tags. SWID tags is an standard that can Read More

According to its website, "JReleaser is a release automation tool. Its goal is to simplify creating releases and publishing artifacts to multiple package managers while providing customizable options.". That is the original goal of the tool since its inception in November 28th 2020 and that goal continues to be the main driver behind features and fixes added to the tool. However, in order to support this driver a few things were added along the road, things that have led people to adopt the tool for other reasons. Here’s what has happened so far: 1. Publish to Package Managers The need Read More

JReleaser v1.10.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.10.0 milestone. This is mostly a fix release with a handful of enhancements. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors. Announce Links in Bluesky announcer will be automatically converted to markdown links. Package Homebrew packager now supports defining custom download strategy and additional require relative statements. Changelog Changelog commits can now be identified by author/contributor, not just title and body. Hooks Several updates to hooks such as new session event, conditional evaluation, and access to stacktrace upon failure. Assemble Provide custom JAVA_OPTS to Read More

JReleaser v1.9.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.9.0 milestone. This is mostly a fix release with a handful of enhancements. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors. Changelog Small improvements to changelog generator. A new f_file_exists function may be used with templates. As always, feedback is welcomed, feel free to file a ticket or start a discussion topic. Keep on coding! Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash

JReleaser v1.8.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.8.0 milestone. This is mostly a fix release with a handful of enhancements. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors. The project also received contributions from Hackergarten Zurich. Package Generation of Homebrew formulae for Jlink distribiutions targeting Apple Silicon M1/M2 has been revamped and should work without problems. Deployment Nexus2 deployer had problems with extra slashes ‘/’ found in deployment paths. This issue has been fixed. Release GitHub release notes larger than 10k will be truncated while the original will be added as Read More

JReleaser v1.7.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.7.0 milestone. This is mostly a fix release with a handful of enhancements. We’d like to thank our most recent contributors. The project also received contributions from Hackergarten Zurich, Luzern, and Basel. Announce You may now post announcers to Bluesky using the Bluesky announcer, which supports similar settings provided by Twitter and Mastodon announcers. Package Several updates to Homebrew, Scoop, Chocolatey, and Spec packagers. Assemble The Jlink assembler may not accept a Java archive as input. It may be combined with already existing inputs. Read More

JReleaser v1.6.0 has just been released! The full list of issues can be found at the v1.6.0 milestone. This release brings fixes to Flatpak and Chocolatey packagers (thanks to Christopher Schnick @crschnick for reporting); new capabilities for executing scripts as externals hooks; additional tweaks to Maven deploy support (thank you Geoffrey De Smet @GeoffreyDeSmet for suggesting those). The following is a quick summary of what’s available in v1.6.0: Announce OpenCollective is now a supported [announcer]https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/reference/announce/opencollective.html. JReleaser continues the trend of helping you reach out to your users wherever they like to hang out. Catalog v1.5.0 added support for generating SBOMs Read More

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