Alternate Location for the changes.xml File

Note: This feature was introduced in version 2.0-beta-2 of the Changes plugin.

Note: Unless you have a specific reason to have your changes.xml file in a different location, we advice you to put it in the default location ${basedir}/src/changes/changes.xml. If nothing else, it saves you from having to configure it.

If you really want to have your changes.xml in another location than the default location, you can do this by configuring your pom.xml. In this example we want to use the file ${basedir}/src/site/changes.xml:

<project>
  ...
  <reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.12.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <xmlPath>${basedir}/src/site/changes.xml</xmlPath>
        </configuration>
        <reportSets>
          <reportSet>
            <reports>
              <report>changes-report</report>
            </reports>
          </reportSet>
        </reportSets>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </reporting>
  ...
</project>