We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.0 release! 

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

The Announcement plugin generates release announcements. It uses the 
information found in both the POM and in the changes.xml file to generate the 
announcement text. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Initial creation. 

  Changes:

o Update to ASL v.2 
o Remove the need for ${pom} interpolation in properties. The use of the 
  maven:property tag is now used to glean a default property.  

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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-announcement-plugin
  -Dversion=1.0

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.0.jar

Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Announcement Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPANNOUNCEMENT


Have fun!
-The Maven Announcement Plugin development team