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Version 0.1.3

2025-11-18

  • New: Expose more useful public constructors and factory methods for core data models.
  • New: Implement equals() and hashCode() for core data models.

Version 0.1.2

2025-08-21

  • New: Allow resource files to be relocated using shading rules.
  • Update: Make packaging tasks compatible with Gradle configuration caching.
  • Update: Allow class files to be deleted via packaging option rules only when it ends with .class.
  • Fix: Ensure that internal/inline classes are properly relocated by shading rules.
  • Fix: Correct the format of public.txt files written to AAR files.

Version 0.1.1

2025-03-27

  • Fix: Update Gradle attributes on incoming/outgoing artifact configurations.

Version 0.1.0

2025-02-19

  • New: Create embedTree configurations to allow consumers to embed an entire dependency tree into a merged artifact.
  • New: Apply shading rules to ServiceLoader provider configuration files.
  • New: Apply shading rules to .kotlin_module files.
  • Update: Allow aaraar artifact to be used as dependency of other projects.
  • Fix: Resource exclusions should not apply to class files.

Version 0.0.18

2024-12-11

  • Update: Set the org.gradle.jvm.environment capability on embed configurations.
  • Update: Improvements to api.jar generation:
    • Expose Kotlin @Metadata annotation property.
    • Automatically update Kotlin metadata when member changes.
    • Classpath.get() returns a virtual definition if not found.
  • Fix: Android resources from embedded dependencies could not be resolved.

Version 0.0.17

2024-08-10

  • New: Support for adding post-processors for custom operations on the merged archive.
  • Update: Extract interfaces for Classpath and related classes to expose only immutable methods.
  • Fix: Avoid overwriting modifiers from source classes when generating api.jar files.

Version 0.0.16

2024-08-02

  • Update: Modularize Gradle packaging code to allow for reuse in other projects.
  • Fix: Avoid exception when combining packaging option rules for Android projects.

Version 0.0.15

2024-06-24

  • New: Support custom shading strategies in core utilities module.
  • New: Support for the entire packaging configuration when merging and packaging Android projects.
  • Update: Changes to api.jar generation:
  • New: Support for reading and writing the class file version.
  • Note: Adding/modifying enum classes is not supported, and will be ignored.

Version 0.0.14

2024-03-10

  • Update: Shading configuration syntax now supports applying one rule to multiple scopes.
  • Update: Allows disabling api.jar generation by providing an ApiJarProcessor.Factory.None by default.
  • Update: api.jar generation now allows reading and writing annotations that are not visible via reflection.

Version 0.0.13

2024-02-27

  • New: Support for creating a custom api.jar in an AAR file.
    • This optional jar is used by the IDE as the autocomplete source, as well as what consumers compile against.
    • Does not affect which classes and class members are executable at runtime.
    • Provides an integration point for complete customization to add/remove classes, rename methods, and more.
    • See packaging guide for info on configuration.

Version 0.0.12

2024-02-07

  • New: Support for limiting shading rules to a particular scope.
  • New: Added addPrefix() shorthand method for shading to add a prefix to each class package.

Version 0.0.11

2024-02-01

  • Update: The keepMetaFiles configuration option now defaults to true.
  • Fix: Resolve issue opening/creating archive files in Windows.

Version 0.0.10

2023-09-02

  • New: Generate Dokka documentation.
  • New: Hosted setup guide at https://aaraar.christian.sh.
  • New: Support for Java projects!
    • The same sh.christian.aaraar plugin can be applied to Java or Kotlin libraries that produce a jar file instead.
    • Configuration is also done through the same aaraar Gradle extension.
    • See publishing guide for details on how to publish embedded jar files.

Version 0.0.9

2023-08-10

  • New: Support for merging navigation.json file.
  • New: Preserve aar-metadata.properties file.
  • Fix: Continue using APIs that are compatible with AGP7 and Java 11.

Version 0.0.8

2023-06-01

  • New: Run aaraar packaging during assemble pipeline.
    • Developers can choose which variants enable aaraar packaging using the existing aaraar extension: 
      aaraar {
  isEnabledForVariant { it.name == "release" }
}
  • Update: Support for consuming Gradle Module Metadata.
  • Update: Support for Android Gradle Plugin 8.

Version 0.0.7

2023-03-29

  • Fix: Add missing "usage" attribute to configuration.

Version 0.0.6

2023-03-13

  • Fix: Capture missing API element modules.

Version 0.0.5

2023-02-28

  • New: Respect packagingOptions.resources.excludes rules configured for project.
    • If any file globs are specified to be excluded, those files should always be deleted from the packaged aar.

Version 0.0.4

2023-02-10

  • Update: Flatten and merge all library dependency jars into single classes.jar.
  • Update: Make core data models have internal constructors but public property access.
  • Fix: Add Usage attribute to aar publishing configuration.

Version 0.0.3

2023-02-03

  • Fix: Support for compiling resources with custom xmlns namespaces.

Version 0.0.2

2023-01-29

  • New: Updated release pipeline and CI builds.
  • Fix: Create extension as soon as plugin is applied.

Version 0.0.1

2023-01-24

  • Initial release.