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title: Apache Maven WAR Plugin, Version 3.3.1 released
date: '2020-07-14T17:03:48+00:00'
permalink: apache-maven-war-plugin-version4
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<div class="entry-content"><p>The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the
  <a href="https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/">Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.3.1</a>.</p>

  <p>The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes
    and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application
    archive.</p>

  <p>You should specify the version in your project&rsquo;s plugin configuration:</p>

  <figure class='code'><figcaption><span></span></figcaption><div class="highlight"><table><tr><td class="gutter"><pre class="line-numbers"><span class='line-number'>1</span>
<span class='line-number'>2</span>
<span class='line-number'>3</span>
<span class='line-number'>4</span>
<span class='line-number'>5</span>
</pre></td><td class='code'><pre><code class='xml'><span class='line'><span class="nt">&lt;plugin&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'>  <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>org.apache.maven.plugins<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'>  <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>maven-war-plugin<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'>  <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>3.3.1<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
</span><span class='line'><span class="nt">&lt;/plugin&gt;</span>
</span></code></pre></td></tr></table></div></figure>


  <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=12348374">Release Notes &ndash; Maven WAR Plugin &ndash; Version 3.3.1</a></p>

  <ul>
    <li><p>Bugs:</p>

      <ul>
        <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-436">MWAR-436</a> &ndash; Jar file created by archiveClasses option is not reproducible</li>
        <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-435">MWAR-435</a> &ndash; Maven WAR Plugin 3.3.0 with minify-maven-plugin does not work correctly anymore</li>
        <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-434">MWAR-434</a> &ndash; archiveClasses Jar file is not created in WEB-INF/lib</li>
        <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-433">MWAR-433</a> &ndash; Maven WAR plugin is deleting files generated by other plugins after upgrading to 3.3.0</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>


  <p>Enjoy,</p>

  <p>-The Apache Maven team</p>
</div>