We are pleased to announce the Maven Distribution Plugin 1.6 release! 

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


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Changes in this version include:

  Changes:

o Use artifact plugin for deployments  

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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-dist-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-dist-plugin-1.6.jar


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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Distribution Plugin
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDIST


Have fun!
-The Maven Distribution Plugin development team