We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.1 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/announcement/ The Announcement plugin generates release announcements. It uses the information found in both the POM and in the changes.xml file to generate the announcement text. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Added new maven.announcement.distributionUrlproperty which specifies where the project jars can be downloaded from. If not specified, it defaults to ${maven.repo.remote}/${pom.groupId}/plugins. Once this property makes it into the POM we'll remove it. o Improved web site documentation. o Added descriptioninformation from the POM to the generated announcement to explain what the project does. o Added information in the generated announcement to indicate from where the plugin can be downloaded. o Added information in the generated announcement to indicate how to install the plugin using the plugin:downloadgoal. o Added more information when running the plugin. Also added a check to verify if the announcement version matches an entry in the changes.xmlfile. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-2. Thanks to Fabrizio Giustina. o Several new additions that makes the plugin more generic: the team name is now taken from pom.groupId, "[]" are removed from the first line, changes are sorted by type, changes report issue number and due-to, the download link is generated from pom.distributionDirectoryand the "plugin has been tested with..." line has been removed. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-1. Thanks to Fabrizio Giustina. Fixed bugs: o Add a space after the "." of the "Issue: xxx." (which happens when you use the "issue" attribute in changes.xml). Changes: o Detect whether the project is a plugin or not by the existence of plugin.jelly in the project directory, and change the wording accordingly. o The maven.announcement.versionproperty does no longer needs to be defined. It defaults to ${pom.currentVersion}if not defined. o Added maven.announcement.file property and echo'd it during generation =============================================================================== 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-announcement-plugin -Dversion=1.1 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.1.jar Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Announcement Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPANNOUNCEMENT Have fun! -The Maven Announcement Plugin development team