We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.4 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. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Added property maven.announcement.lenient. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-19. o Support new format of element in changes.xml. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-18. o Modified the announcement text " The ${pom.groupId} team is pleased..." in favor of " We are pleased..." and changed the signature from " The ${pom.groupId} team" to " The ${pom.name} development team". Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-15. o Add information about the Maven remote repo to use in the generated download instructions. Added a maven.announcement.repo.remoteproperty that can be used to specify from which Maven remote repository the artifact for this project can be found. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-16. Fixed bugs: o CR-LF generated do not match the platform. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-3. o Xml entities transformed in wrong direction. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-10. Changes: o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-net v1.2.1 -> v1.4.0 commons-jelly-tags-xml v1.0 -> v1.1 Fixes MAVEN-1712. =============================================================================== 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=1.4 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.4.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