How do I use GitHub releases to upload a JAR file? Attempts to upload a JAR result in a message that ZIP files, among others are supported. JAR files *are* ZIP files, just with a different extension, of course.

I see that some people have uploaded JAR files directly into repos; is this a work-around?

For example, there is a JAR file at: <https://github.com/uklance/releases/tree/master/org/lazan/tapestry-offline/0.0.1>

And, yet, `GET /repos/:uklance/:releases/releases` reveals no releases.

See also [this Web Apps question](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/73011/).

Although GitHub **does** support upload of binaries, that answer is probably out of date.

The message is:

> 
> Unfortunately, we don’t support that file type. Try again with a PNG, GIF, JPG, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, TXT, PDF, or ZIP. 
> 
> 
> 

It seems to be same problem as here: [Can't upload APK to Github releases](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/67027/cant-upload-apk-to-github-releases?rq=1)