We are pleased to announce the Maven WAR Plugin 1.6.1 release! 

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

War Plugin for Maven 

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Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o Removed attribute update=truefrom ant:jarcall, so now a fresh WAR is 
  created on each run. Fixes MPWAR-33. 
o Allow use of maven.war.manifest to specify the manifest file location. 
  Fixes MPWAR-22. 

  Changes:

o Made the maven.war.final.nameproperty public as it is required by several 
  other plugins and before this change the only way is for these plugins was 
  to call the non-public war:initgoal. 
o Splitted war:webapp in war:war-resources and war:webapp. 
o Deprecated war:load hook goal 
o Make docs more readable.  

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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-war-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6.1

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-war-plugin-1.6.1.jar


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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven WAR Plugin
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPWAR


Have fun!
-The Maven WAR Plugin development team