We are pleased to announce the Maven Source Control Management Plugin 1.6 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/scm/ A plugin for SCM tasks. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o New scm:checkin goal. Fixes MPSCM-47 and MPSCM-54. o Add Starteam support, plus scm:add, scm:status, scm:checkin. Fixes MPSCM-56. Fixed bugs: o The encoding of the project.xml file is not preserved after doing release:transform. Fixes MPRELEASE-12. Thanks to Dennis Lundberg. o Handle poms with a namespace. Fixes MPRELEASE-16. o Handle non-jar dependencies. Fixes MPRELEASE-11. o When pom.repository.connection ends with '/' checkout fails. Fixes MPSCM-65. Thanks to Phil Steitz. o Re-add changes.xml file to display announcements. Fixes MPSCM-57. Changes: o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : maven v1.0-rc2 -> v1.0.2 dom4j v1.4-dev-8 -> v1.4 commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -> v1.0 xml-apis v 1.0.b2 -> xmlParserAPIs v2.6.2 Fixes MAVEN-1712. o Make it possible to check changes made by prepare-release before they are checked in and tagged. New property maven.scm.testmode. Fixes MPSCM-77. o Update to maven-scm 1.0-beta-2. Fixes MPSCM-68. =============================================================================== 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-scm-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-scm-plugin-1.6.jar Have fun! -The Maven Source Control Management Plugin development team