We are pleased to announce the Maven Changes Plugin 1.7 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/changes/ =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o New property maven.changes.outputencoding. Fixed bugs: o changes:release-version removes spaces after closing tags. Fixes MPCHANGES-31. o The encoding of the changes.xml file is not preserved after doing release-version. Fixes MPCHANGES-32. o Missing changes.xml makes report fail. Fixes MPCHANGES-30. o Add icons used by this plugin. This must be independent of the xdoc plugin. Fixes MPCHANGES-29. Changes: o It now requires Maven 1.1. o Update dom4j dependency to match the one in maven 1.1 core. o Replace the deprecated xmlParserAPIs by xml-apis 1.3.03. Fixes MAVEN-1753. o Upgrade to commons-io 1.2. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://repo1.maven.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/ -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-changes-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-changes-plugin-1.7.jar Have fun! -The Maven Changes Plugin development team