We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.3 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 check to verify that the POM has a versionelement for the announcement to be generated. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-14. Thanks to Felipe Leme. o Added new optional maven.announcement.encodingproperty that defines which charset encoding to use to generate the text announcement (defaults to UTF-8). Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-13. Thanks to Felipe Leme. o Added new announcement:mailgoal to automatically send the generated announcement by email. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-9. Thanks to Felipe Leme. o Added new optional maven.announcement.stylesheet.pathproperty that defines what stylesheet to use to generate the text announcement. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-11. Thanks to Felipe Leme. Fixed bugs: o Fixed error message when current version is not available at xdocs/changes.xml. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-12. Thanks to Felipe Leme. =============================================================================== 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=1.3 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.3.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