We are pleased to announce the Maven Eclipse Plugin 1.8 release! 

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

A plugin to generate various files for the Eclipse IDE and ease the use of 
Maven within that environment. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Add eclipse:clean goal. Fixes MPECLIPSE-27. Thanks to Kristopher Brown. 
o Add maven.gen.src property that points to a directory whose subdirectories 
  are included as separate source directories. 
o Set eclipse.dependency=false to explicity ignore dependencies in classpath 
  generation Fixes MPECLIPSE-10. Thanks to Thierry Lack. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Fixed a 'race condition' where Cactus dependency is added twice to 
  .classpath. Fixes MPECLIPSE-37. Thanks to Felipe Leme. 
o Fixed a 'race condition' where JUnit dependency is not added to .classpath. 
  Fixes MPECLIPSE-36. Thanks to Felipe Leme. 
o Fix classpath generation when tests are not present Fixes MPECLIPSE-29. 
  Thanks to Marc-Antoine Garrigue. 
o classpath includes must be relative directories Fixes MPECLIPSE-32.  

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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-eclipse-plugin
  -Dversion=1.8

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin-1.8.jar


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

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


Have fun!
-The Maven Eclipse Plugin development team