We are pleased to announce the Maven Artifact Plugin 1.7 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/artifact/ Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. *WARNING*: This version of the artifact-plugin requires Maven 1.1. People using Maven 1.0 should NOT use this version of the plugin. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o New attribute artifactIdOverridethat allows to specify custom names for deployed/installed artifacts. Fixes MPARTIFACT-57. Thanks to Neil Crow. o Make deploying a timestamped SNAPSHOT artifact configurable. Fixes MPARTIFACT-59. o New tag artifact:rewritePOM to Rewrite a full model. Inheritence,expression, and versions of dependencies overrided are resolved. Fixed bugs: o When deploying a snapshot, jar and pom have different timestamped version. Fixes MPARTIFACT-56. o Correct handling of directory without a leading / Fixes MPARTIFACT-58. Changes: o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-collections v3.1 -> v3.0 commons-httpclient v2.0 -> v2.0.2 commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -> v1.0 commons-jexl v1.0-beta-1 -> v1.0 commons-logging v1.0.3 -> v1.0.4 commons-net v1.1.0 -> v1.4.0 plexus-utils v1.0-alpha-3 -> v1.0.3 Fixes MAVEN-1712. o When rewriting POM, versions of dependencies overrided are resolved. =============================================================================== 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-artifact-plugin -Dversion=1.7 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-artifact-plugin-1.7.jar =============================================================================== Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Artifact Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPARTIFACT Have fun! -The Maven Artifact Plugin development team