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

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

Produce project release 

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Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o Fix issues with DOM classes and jdk1.3 
o Change deploy:pom goal to pom:deploy goal Fixes MPRELEASE-3.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-release-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-release-plugin-1.3.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Release Plugin development team