• Breaking Change! Restrict Plugin to Gradle 3.0+
• Breaking Change! Build with Java 7
• Breaking Change! Updated Transformer interface to accept TransformerContext object instead of individual values
• Breaking Change! Updated Relocator interface to accept RelocatePathContext and RelocateClassContext objects
• Breaking Change! Distribution tasks distShadowZip and distShadowTar have been removed and replaced with the standard shadowDistZip and shadowDistTar from the Gradle Distribution plugin.
• Breaking Change! The installShadowApp task has been removed and replaced with the standard installShadowDist task from the Gradle Distribution plugin.
• Breaking Change! The new installShadowDist task outputs to build/install/<project name>-shadow per the standard (formerly was build/installShadow)
• Breaking Change! component.shadow removed in favor of project.shadow.component(publication) so as to remove dependency on internal Gradle APIs.
• NEW Introducing ConfigureShadowRelocation task and com.github.johnrengelman.plugin-shadow plugin to automatically configure package relocation for Gradle plugins.
• NEW Integration with Gradle Build Scans. When running a ShadowJar task with Build Scans, custom values including dependencies merged anc package relocations are published in the scan.
• Build Shadow w/ Shadow. This will help prevent any future classpath conflicts with Gradle.
• Replace startShadowScripts tasks with Gradle's built-in CreateStartScripts type.
• Build with Gradle 3.1
• Marc Philipp - Add keyTransformer property to PropertiesFileTransformer
• Update to ASM 5.2
• Piotr Kubowicz - Support api, implementation, runtimeOnly dependency configurations introdcued in Gradle 3.3