We are pleased to announce the Maven Artifact Plugin 1.3 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/artifact/

Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. *WARNING*: This version of the 
artifact-plugin requires Maven 1.1. People using Maven 1.0 should NOT use this 
version of the plugin. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Allow non-passive FTP Fixes MPARTIFACT-8. Thanks to Matt Smith. 
o Fix copy-deps when list is empty Fixes MPARTIFACT-20. 
o Accept empty passphrase to ssh based deployers 
o Default to maven.username if repository username not given 
o Add typeHandler parameter to tags to specify a custom handler 
o Switch between modern and legacy mode based on properties defined 
o Absorb the deploy plugin to give one point of migration 

  Fixed bugs:

o Build and run against the installed version of Maven 
o Replace Apache Jakarta Maven by Apache Maven in Manifest Fixes MPJAR-29. 
  Thanks to Martin van den Bemt.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-artifact-plugin
  -Dversion=1.3

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-artifact-plugin-1.3.jar


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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Artifact Plugin
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPARTIFACT


Have fun!
-The Maven Artifact Plugin development team