We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.2 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 announcement:generate-allto generate announcement files for all releases. Changes: o Generates the announcement file in ${maven.gen.docs}/announcementsso that it is copied to the web site when this later is deployed. o Default announcement file name now contains the version in its name. =============================================================================== 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=1.2 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.2.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