We are pleased to announce the Maven POM Plugin 1.3 release! 

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

Basic validation and updating mechanisms for your Project Object Model. 

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Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o Make pom:validate work again. The xerces upgrade broke jarv. Now using jing 
o Bring back pom:validate 

  Changes:

o Upgrade to maven 1.0 beta 10 and dom4j 1.4 
o Upgrade to dom4j 1.4-dev-8  

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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-pom-plugin
  -Dversion=1.3

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-pom-plugin-1.3.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven POM Plugin development team