We are pleased to announce the Maven Artifact Plugin 1.9 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 Allow to sign artifacts to deploy. Refer to properties documentation to know how to activate it. Fixes MPARTIFACT-75. Fixed bugs: o Creating an upload-bundle for a plugin without any java code does not work. Fixes MPARTIFACT-72. o "reject HostKey" error : Due to the upgrade of wagon, artifacts can't be deployed with scp and sftp protocols. Fixes MPARTIFACT-71. Changes: o Upgrade maven-model to version 3.0.2 and use stax reader/parser for the pom to allow to use relative entities. Fixes MAVEN-1755. o Upgrade plexus-utils to version 1.0.5 Fixes MAVEN-1803. o Upgrade commons-jexl to version 1.1 Fixes MAVEN-1796. o Change the default repository to http://repo1.maven.org/maven/ for dependencies url in the manifest. Fixes MAVEN-1789. o Update to velocity 1.5. o Update jelly dependency to match the ones in maven 1.1 core. o Include javadocs in created upload bundle. Fixes MPARTIFACT-67. o Upgrade Wagon dependencies to version 1.0-beta-2. Fixes MPARTIFACT-66. o Upgrade dependencies required by wagon : upgrade jsch 0.1.27 (instead of 0.1.14) and commons-net 1.4.1 (instead of 1.4.0). Fixes MPARTIFACT-66. =============================================================================== 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=1.9 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-artifact-plugin-1.9.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