We are pleased to announce the Maven Javadoc Plugin 1.6 release! 

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


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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Use the property 'maven.javadoc.excludepackagenames' to exclude packages 
  from javadoc generation. Fixes MPJAVADOC-30. Thanks to Maarten Coene. 
o Add the property maven.javadoc.debug to print informations to debug the 
  plugin. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Javadoc plugin ignores the package specified in the pom. Fixes 
  MPJAVADOC-33. 
o The maven-javadoc-plugin:register failed in javadoc plugin 1.5.1-SNAPSHOT. 
  Fixes MPJAVADOC-32. Thanks to Guillaume Nodet. 
o Use the property 'maven.compile.encoding' to set the encoding used when 
  reading sources in javadoc task. Fixes MPJAVADOC-31. Thanks to Takayoshi 
  Kimura. 
o Packages list broken on jdk 1.3 for multiple packages. Fixes MPJAVADOC-29. 
o @link tag not working with package names. Fixes MPJAVADOC-28. 
o Fix the needed flag when there's an empty sources directory. Fixes 
  MPJAVADOC-26. Thanks to Denis McLaughlin. 
o doc-files directories contents are correctly copied. Fixes MPJAVADOC-24. 
o Failure to generate relative cross-references to local classes. Fixes 
  MPJAVADOC-16. 
o Add support for multiple source directories. Fixes MPJAVADOC-5.  

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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-javadoc-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin-1.6.jar


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

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


Have fun!
-The Maven Javadoc Plugin development team