# Announcement: JReleaser 0.5.0 Released! > JReleaser is a tool that streamlines creating releases for [Java] projects. It can create a GitHub/GitLab/Gitea release, and more! - URL: https://foojay.io/today/jreleaser-0-5-0-released/ - Published: 2021-07-01 - Authors: Andres Almiray - Categories: Release Notes JReleaser v0.5.0 has been released! JReleaser is a tool that streamlines creating releases for \[Java\] projects. It can create a GitHub/GitLab/Gitea release, while also packaging binaries for Homebrew, Snapcraft, Docker, Chocolatey, Scoop, JBang and, more than that, announces releases to Twitter, SdkMan!, e-mail, Zulip, Discord, Gitter, Slack, Teams, and more. In this release you'll find updates and features such as: * Support for two additional distribution types: NATIVE_PACKAGE and BINARY. The first type enables artifacts of type `.dmg`, `.pkg`, `.deb`, `.rpm`, `.msi`, `.exe` to be used with packagers (currently Homebrew); the second type enables non-Java distributions as long as they provide an executable or launcher script. * The Homebrew packager supports generating casks for `.dmg` and `.pkg` artifacts. * Artifacts of distributions of type NATIVE_IMAGE must now be packaged as zip file; the nativeImage assembler has been updated to produce zip files. * The Sdkman announcer can publish distributions of type JLINK and NATIVE_IMAGE. * Speaking of announcers, there are two brand new announcers, the first is Google ChatBot, the second is for generic incoming webhooks. * When updating a Git release you can now choose a combination of title, body, assets. Full changelog can be found at the [v0.5.0 release](https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser/releases/tag/v0.5.0 "v0.5.0 release") page. More information about the tool can be found at .