We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.4.1 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 Add a link to the issue tracking system (if defined). Changes: o Update dependencies to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-net v1.4.0 to v1.4.1 =============================================================================== 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=1.4.1 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.4.1.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