Spring Boot 2 - Change Jar Name

Question

I am using Spring Boot 2 in my Gradle project to do a build to jar in Jenkins, and I would like to change the name of that jar file.

By default, Spring Boot 2 used the G

Answer 1

Most people simply want to not have the version in the jar name, not change the name completely.

tasks.withType {
    archiveVersion.set("")
}

will do it using Kotlin DSL. The final name is given by tasks.bootJar.get().archiveFileName.get().