We are pleased to announce the Maven Ant Plugin 1.9 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/ant/

Generates ant build files from a maven project, so that plain ant users can 
build your project 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Ant script looks for dependencies in several remote repositories. Fixes 
  MPANT-24. 
o Add License file to jar META-INF. Fixes MPANT-23. Thanks to Phil Steitz. 
o Allow URL substitutions in generated build.xml files. Fixes MPANT-20. 
  Thanks to Dennis Lundberg,Craig McClanahan. 
o Obey jar override and not attempt to download relative jars. Fixes MPANT-7. 
o Ant user can set proxy settings. 
o New property maven.ant.compatibility if you want a script compatible with 
  ant 1.5 (actually for proxy settings). 

  Changes:

o "get-deps" target store downloads to the default local maven repository ( 
  ${user.home}/.maven/repository). Fixes MPANT-21.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-ant-plugin
  -Dversion=1.9

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin-1.9.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Ant Plugin development team