We are pleased to announce the Maven Announcement Plugin 1.5-SNAPSHOT release! 

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

The Announcement plugin generates release announcements. It uses the 
information found in both the POM and in the changes.xml file to generate the 
announcement text. 

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Changes in this version include:

  Changes:

o Update dependencies to unify them between plugins. The following 
  dependencies are updated : commons-net v1.4.0 to v1.4.1  

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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-announcement-plugin
  -Dversion=1.5-SNAPSHOT

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.5-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Announcement Plugin development team