Version 0.7.4 of the Shadow plugin is available. This update contains minor changes to remove deprecated method warning in Gradle 1.6.
Shadow is a Groovy/Gradle port of the Apache Shade plugin for Maven. It generates an output jar containing your application’s code along with classes from dependencies.
Source Code: https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/ Binary Release: https://bintray.com/version/show/general/johnrengelman/gradle-plugins/org.gradle.plugins%3Ashadow/0.7.4