What's Changed

• Replace deprecated ConfigureUtil by @Goooler in #826
• Polish outdated configs by @Goooler in #831
• Update plugin com.gradle.enterprise to v3.12.5 by @renovate in #838
• Update dependency gradle to v8.0.2 by @renovate in #844
• fix(deps): update dependency org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils to v3.5.1 by @renovate in #837
• chore(deps): update dependency prismjs to v1.27.0 [security] by @renovate in #828
• Encode transformed properties files with specified Charset by @scottsteen in #819
• chore(deps): update dependency vuepress to v1.9.9 by @renovate in #842

New Contributors

• @renovate made their first contribution in #838
• @scottsteen made their first contribution in #819

Full Changelog: 8.1.0...8.1.1

What's Changed

• Minor cleanups by @Goooler in #823
• Support config cache by @Goooler in #824
• Fix RelocatorRemapper: do not map inner class name if not changed by @Him188 in #793

New Contributors

• @Him188 made their first contribution in #793

Full Changelog: 8.0.0...8.1.0

What's Changed

• Fix the plugin dependency identifier in the docs by @lnhrdt in #754
• mergeGroovyExtensionModules() not working with Groovy 2.5+ by @paulk-asert in #779
• Upgrade to ASM 9.3 to support JDK 19. by @vyazelenko in #770
• Do not add a dependencies block if it's already there by @desiderantes in #769
• Update README with new badge and links by @ThexXTURBOXx in #743
• Fix value not set when rawString is true. by @qian0817 in #765
• Mark the Log4j2PluginsCacheFileTransformer as cacheable. by @staktrace in #724
• Fix retrieval of dependencies node when publishing by @netomi in #798
• Upgrade dependency ASM from 9.3 to 9.4 by @codecholeric in #817
• Fix a typo of code comment in the minimizing page by @jebnix in #800
• Prefer using plugin extensions over deprecated conventions by @eskatos in #821
• Introduce CleanProperties by @simPod in #622
• Support Gradle 8.0 by @Goooler in #822
• Updated dependencies , Gradle versions and Fix Test by @ElisaMin in #791

New Contributors

• @lnhrdt made their first contribution in #754
• @paulk-asert made their first contribution in #779
• @desiderantes made their first contribution in #769
• @ThexXTURBOXx made their first contribution in #743
• @qian0817 made their first contribution in #765
• @staktrace made their first contribution in #724
• @netomi made their first contribution in #798
• @codecholeric made their first contribution in #817
• @jebnix made their first contribution in #800
• @eskatos made their first contribution in #821
• @simPod made their first contribution in #622
• @Goooler made their first contribution in #822
• @ElisaMin made their first contribution in #791

Full Changelog: 7.1.2...8.0.0

• Upgrade log4j to 2.17.1 due to CVE-2021-45105 and CVE-2021-44832

• Upgrade log4j to 2.16.0 due to CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046

• Jeff - Fix shadowJar Out-Of-Date with configuration caching #708
• Fiouz - Better support for statically typed languages. This change may require code changes if you are utilizing the Groovy generated getters for properties in some Shadow transformers #706
• Helder Pereira - Various cleanups #672, #700, #701, #702
• Roberto Perez Alcolea - Support JVM Toolchains #691
• mjulianotq - Fix Project.afterEvaluate conflicts #675
• Ilya Muradyan - Fix relocation for ComponentsXmlResourceTransformer #678
• Vaidotas Valuckas - Fix JavaExec.main deprecation #686
• Dmitry Vyazelenko - Support Java 18 with ASM 9.2 #698
• Jason - Support Records with JDependency 2.7.0 #681

• Required Gradle 7.0+
• Support for Java 16
• Removes JCenter references
• Cédric Champeau - Support Gradle 7 #624
• Daniel Oakey - Close FileInputStream when remapping close to avoid classloader locks #642
• Maximilian Müller - Groovy error in ServiceFileTransformer in Gradle 3 #655
• Helder Pereira - Fix deprecations errors in transformers and add CI testing around future deprecations #647
• Nicolas Humblot - Handle deprecation of mainClassName configuration #609, #612
• Bernie Schelberg - Exclude api and implementations from legacy maven POM #615

• As of this version, Shadow is compiled with Java 8 source and target compatability. This aligns the plugin with the minimum required Java version
  for Gradle 6.0 (https://docs.gradle.org/6.0/release-notes.html).
• Update ASM to 9.0 to support JDK 16.
• Tim Yates, Benedikt Ritter - Enable Configuration Caching for Gradle 6.6+ #591
• Caleb - doc updates #583
• Schalk W. Cronjé - log4j version update for CVE-2020-9488 #590
• Victor Tso - Input stream handling for large projects #587
• Matthew Haughton - Implement Task Configuration Avoidance pattern #597

• Required Gradle 6.0+
• NEW: Support for Gradle Metadata publication via the shadowRuntimeElements configuration. This is a beta feature
  the hasn't been tested extensively. Feedback is appreciated.
• Fix Gradle 7 deprecation warnings #530
• Fix to generated start script to correctly use optsEnvironmentVar#518
• Yahor Berdnikau - Fix issues with Gradle API being embedded into published JAR #527
• Dmitry Vyazelenko - ASM updates to support latest Java versions #549
• ejjcase - Support exposing shadowed project dependencies via POM #543
• Artem Chubaryan - Performance optimizations #535
• Trask Stalnaker - Fix exclude patterns on Windows #539

With the release of Gradle 6.0, this will be the last release to support Gradle 5.x. The next version will be the major release 6.0 and will support at minimum Gradle 6.0 going forward.
Thank you for all the contributions for this release.

• Inez Korczyński - Performance optimization when evaluating relocation paths #507
• Jeff Adler - Fix remapping issues with multi release JARS #526
• Gary Hale - Implement support for Gradle build cache #524
• Roberto Perez Alcolea - Gradle 6.x support #517
• Konstantin Gribov - Return support for 5.0 for convention mapping #502
• Lai Jiang - Documentation updates on how to reconfigure classifier and version #512