diff --git a/jOOQ-console/pom.xml b/jOOQ-console/pom.xml
index 588c201fe2..0981897513 100644
--- a/jOOQ-console/pom.xml
+++ b/jOOQ-console/pom.xml
@@ -197,7 +197,6 @@
             <artifactId>rsyntaxtextarea</artifactId>
             <version>1.5.0</version>
             <type>jar</type>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jooq</groupId>
diff --git a/jOOQ-release/build.xml b/jOOQ-release/build.xml
index 828c96804b..5f384671c1 100644
--- a/jOOQ-release/build.xml
+++ b/jOOQ-release/build.xml
@@ -50,9 +50,11 @@
 
  		<copy todir="${dir.release}/${version}/third-party/lib" file="C:\Users\lukas\.m2\repository\org\apache\ant\ant\1.8.2\ant-1.8.2.jar"/>
 
-		<!-- Include rsyntaxtextarea.jar binaries in jooq-console.jar -->
+		<!-- Include jooq.jar and rsyntaxtextarea.jar binaries in jooq-console.jar -->
+		<unzip dest="${dir.release}/${version}/third-party/src/unzipped" src="${dir.workspace}/jOOQ/target/jooq-${version}.jar"/>
 		<unzip dest="${dir.release}/${version}/third-party/src/unzipped" src="${dir.release}/${version}/third-party/lib/rsyntaxtextarea-1.5.0.jar"/>
 
+
 		<jar update="true" destfile="${dir.release}/${version}/lib/jooq-console-${version}.jar">
 			<fileset dir="${dir.release}/${version}/third-party/src/unzipped">
 				<include name="org/**"/>