We are pleased to announce the Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.2 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/checkstyle/ =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: Fixed bugs: o The Checkstyle HTML report now provides information on severity. Fixes MPCHECKSTYLE-2. Thanks to Henri Tremblay. o Prevent projects who do not use the head check from failing if they don't provide a license file. Changes: o Upgraded to Checkstyle 3.2. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/ -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-checkstyle-plugin -Dversion=2.2 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin-2.2.jar Have fun! -The Maven Checkstyle Plugin development team