diff --git a/bootstrap/src/main/java/coursier/Bootstrap.java b/bootstrap/src/main/java/coursier/Bootstrap.java
index b0899fd7e..9caa2e4ec 100644
--- a/bootstrap/src/main/java/coursier/Bootstrap.java
+++ b/bootstrap/src/main/java/coursier/Bootstrap.java
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ public class Bootstrap {
             });
         }
 
+        String clearLine = "\033[2K";
+
         try {
             while (localURLs.size() < urls.size()) {
                 Future<URL> future = completionService.take();
@@ -224,7 +226,6 @@ public class Bootstrap {
                     URL url = future.get();
                     localURLs.add(url);
                     int nowMissing = urls.size() - localURLs.size();
-                    String clearLine = "\033[2K";
                     String up = "\033[1A";
                     System.err.print(clearLine + "Downloaded " + (missingURLs.size() - nowMissing) + " missing file(s) / " + missingURLs.size() + "\n" + up);
                 } catch (ExecutionException ex) {
@@ -236,6 +237,8 @@ public class Bootstrap {
             exit("Interrupted");
         }
 
+        System.err.print(clearLine);
+
         return localURLs;
     }
 
diff --git a/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Coursier.scala b/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Coursier.scala
index 30143a5fa..0366ea41d 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Coursier.scala
+++ b/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Coursier.scala
@@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ case class Bootstrap(
   @Value("key=value")
   @Short("P")
     property: List[String],
+  @Help("Set Java command-line options in the generated launcher.")
+  @Value("option")
+  @Short("J")
+    javaOpt: List[String],
   @Recurse
     isolated: IsolatedLoaderOptions,
   @Recurse
@@ -475,7 +479,7 @@ case class Bootstrap(
       )
     else
       (
-        helper.res.artifacts.map(_.url),
+        helper.artifacts(sources = false, javadoc = false).map(_.url),
         Seq.empty[File]
       )
 
@@ -552,10 +556,10 @@ case class Bootstrap(
 
   outputZip.close()
 
-
+  // escaping of  javaOpt  possibly a bit loose :-|
   val shellPreamble = Seq(
     "#!/usr/bin/env sh",
-    "exec java -jar \"$0\" \"$@\""
+    "exec java -jar " + javaOpt.map(s => "'" + s.replace("'", "\\'") + "'").mkString(" ") + " \"$0\" \"$@\""
   ).mkString("", "\n", "\n")
 
   try NIOFiles.write(output0.toPath, shellPreamble.getBytes("UTF-8") ++ buffer.toByteArray)
diff --git a/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Helper.scala b/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Helper.scala
index 5f33b6955..1d282edc3 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Helper.scala
+++ b/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/cli/Helper.scala
@@ -283,11 +283,11 @@ class Helper(
       sys.exit(1)
   }
 
-  def fetch(
+  def artifacts(
     sources: Boolean,
     javadoc: Boolean,
     subset: Set[Dependency] = null
-  ): Seq[File] = {
+  ): Seq[Artifact] = {
 
     if (subset == null && verbose0 >= 0) {
       val msg = cachePolicies match {
@@ -302,17 +302,25 @@ class Helper(
 
     val res0 = Option(subset).fold(res)(res.subset)
 
-    val artifacts =
-      if (classifier0.nonEmpty || sources || javadoc) {
-        var classifiers = classifier0
-        if (sources)
-          classifiers = classifiers :+ "sources"
-        if (javadoc)
-          classifiers = classifiers :+ "javadoc"
+    if (classifier0.nonEmpty || sources || javadoc) {
+      var classifiers = classifier0
+      if (sources)
+        classifiers = classifiers :+ "sources"
+      if (javadoc)
+        classifiers = classifiers :+ "javadoc"
 
-        res0.classifiersArtifacts(classifiers.distinct)
-      } else
-        res0.artifacts
+      res0.classifiersArtifacts(classifiers.distinct)
+    } else
+      res0.artifacts
+  }
+
+  def fetch(
+    sources: Boolean,
+    javadoc: Boolean,
+    subset: Set[Dependency] = null
+  ): Seq[File] = {
+
+    val artifacts0 = artifacts(sources, javadoc, subset)
 
     val logger =
       if (verbose0 >= 0)
@@ -320,10 +328,10 @@ class Helper(
       else
         None
 
-    if (verbose0 >= 1 && artifacts.nonEmpty)
-      println(s"  Found ${artifacts.length} artifacts")
+    if (verbose0 >= 1 && artifacts0.nonEmpty)
+      println(s"  Found ${artifacts0.length} artifacts")
 
-    val tasks = artifacts.map(artifact =>
+    val tasks = artifacts0.map(artifact =>
       (Cache.file(artifact, caches, cachePolicies.head, checksums = checksums, logger = logger, pool = pool) /: cachePolicies.tail)(
         _ orElse Cache.file(artifact, caches, _, checksums = checksums, logger = logger, pool = pool)
       ).run.map(artifact.->)
diff --git a/coursier b/coursier
index 61cbb7305..e067ee3b1 100755
Binary files a/coursier and b/coursier differ
diff --git a/project/generate-launcher.sh b/project/generate-launcher.sh
index 6bf88bffc..94474d5e9 100755
--- a/project/generate-launcher.sh
+++ b/project/generate-launcher.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ fi
 
 "$SBTPACK_LAUNCHER" bootstrap \
   com.github.alexarchambault:coursier-cli_2.11:$VERSION \
+  --classifier standalone \
+  --intransitive \
+  -J "-noverify" \
   --no-default \
   -r central \
   -r sonatype:releases \
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 08f06411f..8ccf88857 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ addSbtPlugin("org.scala-js" % "sbt-scalajs" % "0.6.5")
 addSbtPlugin("com.jsuereth" % "sbt-pgp" % "1.0.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.scoverage" % "sbt-scoverage" % "1.1.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.tpolecat" % "tut-plugin" % "0.4.0")
-addSbtPlugin("com.github.alexarchambault" % "coursier-sbt-plugin" % "1.0.0-M4")
+addSbtPlugin("com.github.alexarchambault" % "coursier-sbt-plugin" % "1.0.0-M8")
 addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-proguard" % "0.2.2")
 addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe" % "sbt-mima-plugin" % "0.1.8")