We are pleased to announce the Maven Simian Plugin 1.6 release! 

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

Simian Plugin for Maven 

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Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o Includes/excludes pattern does not support multiple patterns. Fixes 
  MPSIMIAN-11. Thanks to Thomas Recloux. 
o Tag library warning when using simian 1.5 Fixes MPSIMIAN-15. 
o Simian report contains broken links to xref/xref-test directories Fixes 
  MPSIMIAN-12. Thanks to James Dickinson. 

  Changes:

o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them 
  between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : ant v1.5.3-1 
  -> v1.6.5 commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -> v1.0 commons-logging v1.0.3 
  -> v1.0.4 Fixes MAVEN-1712.  

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

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://repo1.maven.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-simian-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-simian-plugin-1.6.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Simian Plugin development team