Issues

• Consider updating plexus-archiver to 4.14.0

  enhancement
  apache/maven-war-plugin#659 · Filter by author rodwiddowson opened on Sep 21, 2026

• Multibyte UTF-8 character split by newline in MANIFEST. MF

  bug
  apache/maven-war-plugin#654 · Filter by author vayshya opened on Sep 10, 2026

• Deprecated addDirectory method in AbstractWarPakagingTask

  priority:minor
  apache/maven-war-plugin#643 · Filter by author elharo opened on Jul 31, 2026

• OverlayManager.compareOverlayWithArtifact() treats null classifier as literal "null" string

  apache/maven-war-plugin#621 · Filter by author elharo opened on Jul 4, 2026

• DependencyInfo.hashCode() violates equals/hashCode contract

  apache/maven-war-plugin#620 · Filter by author elharo opened on Jul 4, 2026
  1

• WarUtils.isRelated() has inverted equality checks for version, type, classifier, scope

  apache/maven-war-plugin#619 · Filter by author elharo opened on Jul 4, 2026

• mkdirs return value is ignored

  bug
  apache/maven-war-plugin#590 · Filter by author elharo opened on Nov 24, 2025
  2

• war:exploded should have an explicit incremental option

  enhancement
  apache/maven-war-plugin#556 · Filter by author Syreniac opened on Sep 24, 2025
  1

• [MWAR-455] Exploded war task fails on second run when file that was previously read only is updated

  bugpriority:major
  apache/maven-war-plugin#536 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Jul 1, 2022

• [MWAR-446] Add an option to put libs in STORED mode (instead of DEFLATED)

  enhancementpriority:major
  apache/maven-war-plugin#526 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Dec 26, 2021
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• [MWAR-445] Create war archive without creating exploded war

  enhancementpriority:minor
  apache/maven-war-plugin#537 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Dec 5, 2021

• [MWAR-443] Maven WAR plugin is deleting files generated by Maven Dependency plugin after upgrading to 3.3.1

  bugpriority:major
  apache/maven-war-plugin#522 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Jul 9, 2021
  1

• [MWAR-415] ${maven.build.timestamp} is not working in filtered webResources

  bugpriority:major
  apache/maven-war-plugin#270 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Apr 27, 2018
  2

• [MWAR-353] Manifest still not written to exploded location

  bugpriority:major
  apache/maven-war-plugin#182 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Aug 17, 2015 · 2.6
  8

• [MWAR-220] dependencyManagement && overlay + transitive dependency = multiple versions of same dependency in WEB-INF/lib

  bugpriority:major
  apache/maven-war-plugin#389 · Filter by author jira-importer opened on Mar 30, 2010
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