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title: Apache Maven WAR Plugin Version 3.3.0 Released
id: 404978f3-325f-4219-960f-0902ef23be8b
date: '2020-06-13 10:08:05 -0400'
categories: maven
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- maven-plugin
permalink: maven/entry/apache-maven-war-plugin-version3
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<p>The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the<br />
<a href="https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/">Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.3.0</a>.</p>
<p>The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes<br />
and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application<br />
archive.</p>
<p>You should specify the version in your project&rsquo;s plugin configuration:</p>
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<pre><code class='xml'><span class='line'><span class="nt"><plugin></span>
</span><span class='line'>  <span class="nt"><groupId></span>org.apache.maven.plugins<span class="nt"></groupId></span>
</span><span class='line'>  <span class="nt"><artifactId></span>maven-war-plugin<span class="nt"></artifactId></span>
</span><span class='line'>  <span class="nt"><version></span>3.3.0<span class="nt"></version></span>
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<p>You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the <a href="https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/download.cgi">download page</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318121&amp;version=12345578">Release Notes &ndash; Maven WAR Plugin &ndash; Version 3.3.0</a></p>
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<p>Bugs:</p>
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<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-314">MWAR-314</a> &ndash; failOnMissingWebXml ignored when webXml set</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-427">MWAR-427</a> &ndash; WAR plugin includes the same artifact twice if used without clean</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-429">MWAR-429</a> &ndash; Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:3.2.3:exploded (pre-exploded-war) on project alfresco-platform</li>
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<p>New Feature:</p>
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<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-432">MWAR-432</a> &ndash; Reproducible Builds: make entries in output jar files reproducible (order + timestamp)</li>
</ul>
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<p>Improvements:</p>
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<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-375">MWAR-375</a> &ndash; Remove the useCache with its implementation</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-397">MWAR-397</a> &ndash; Replace XStream with Modello to merge overlays</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-430">MWAR-430</a> &ndash; support JakartaEE namespace: remove or adapt hardcoded reference to javax.servlet package</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-431">MWAR-431</a> &ndash; make build Reproducible</li>
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<p>Enjoy,</p>
<p>-The Apache Maven team</p>
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