Apache Maven 1.x has reached its end of life, and is no longer supported. For more information, see the announcement. Users are encouraged to migrate to the current version of Apache Maven.
This plugin has been removed from the current Maven distribution,
it is not maintained by the Maven team anymore.
Please check the
Plugins History
page to find out the last Maven version that included this plugin.
Maven Release Plug-in
This plug-in provides some basic help with releases.