Gradle plugin to create fat/uber JARs, apply file transforms, and relocate packages for applications and libraries. Gradle version of Maven's Shade plugin.
ManifestAppenderTransformer to support appending to Jar manifest #474
gradleApi from compile scope in the presence of shadow #459
UnusedTracker when not requested #480, #479
NullPointerException when using java minimization and api project dependency with version #477
-all being dropped in Gradle 5.1+ShadowJar.getMetaClass() #456
com.palantir.docker #460
shadow, application, and maven plugins together, remove shadowDistZip and shadowDistTar from
configurations.archives so they are not published or installed by default with the uploadArchives or install
tasks. #347
null path when using Jar minimization and Gradle's api configuration. #424, #425
api configuration from minimization, #405
Transform.modifyOutputStream(ZipOutputStream os) to Transform.modifyOutputStream(ZipOutputStream jos, boolean preserveFileTimestamps).
Typically breaking changes are reserved for major version releases, but this change was necessary for preserverFileTimestamps (introduced in v4.0.0) to work correctly
in the presence of transformers, #404
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 GuideshadowJar.preserveFileTimestamps property. See Jar.preserveFileTimestamps
Log4j2PluginsCacheFileTransformer to process Log4j DAT files during merge.mainClassName" issue.module-info.class from shadowJar when using the Shadow the Java plugin, #352
AbstractFileCollection.application plugin in Gradle 4.3 Issues #339