Added

• Support relocating Groovy extensions in Module descriptors. (#1705)
• Add extensions for Iterable<Relocator>. (#1710)
• Support relocating list of types in RelocatorRemapper. (#1714)
• Add mainClass property into ShadowJar. (#1722)

  tasks.shadowJar {
    // This property will be used as a fallback if there is no explicit `Main-Class` attribute set.
    mainClass = "my.Main"
  }

• Honor executableDir and applicationName in application extension. (#1740)
  This is useful when you want to customize the output directory of the start scripts and the application distribution.
• Provide more task accessors in ShadowApplicationPlugin.Companion. (#1771)
• Support relocating Kotlin module files. (#1539)
  The current implementation relocates all properties in KotlinModuleMetadata but KmModule.optionalAnnotationClasses due to very limited usage of it. See more discussion here.
• Allow overriding BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE in GMM. (#1773)
  The org.gradle.dependency.bundling in shadowed JAR's Gradle Module Metadata is set to shadowed by default. You can override it for now by:

  shadow {
    bundlingAttribute = Bundling.EMBEDDED
  }

Changed

• Merge Groovy Module descriptors into the modern META-INF path. (#1706)
  The Gradle Module descriptors (org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule files) defined under META-INF/services/
  and META-INF/groovy will be merged into META-INF/groovy/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule.
• Move injecting Class-Path manifest attr logic from doFirst into copy. (#1720)
• Move injecting Main-Class manifest attr logic from doFirst into copy. (#1724)
• Deprecate InheritManifest and inheritFrom. (#1722)

  tasks.shadowJar {
    // Before (deprecated):
    manifest.inheritFrom(tasks.jar.get().manifest)
    // After (recommended):
    manifest.from(tasks.jar.get().manifest)
  
    // Note: You don't need to inherit the manifest from `jar` task as it's done by default for the `shadowJar` task.
    // But if you want to inherit the manifest for your custom `ShadowJar` task, you still need to do it explicitly.
  }

• Use default JavaExec error message when main class is not set. (#1725)
• Update RelocatorRemapper class pattern to cover more Java method descriptors. (#1731)
• Stop using start script templates bundled in Shadow. (#1738)
• Bump min Java requirement to 17. (#1744)
• Require most optional properties non-null. (#1745)
• Make assemble depend on shadowJar even if it is added later. (#1766)

Fixed

• Fix excluding dependencies whose versions contain +. (#1597)