We are pleased to announce the Maven Artifact Plugin 1.7-SNAPSHOT release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/reference/plugins/artifact/

Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. Requires Maven 1.1. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o New tag artifact:rewritePOM to Rewrite a full model. 
  Inheritence,expression, and versions of dependencies overrided are 
  resolved. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Correct handling of directory without a leading / Fixes MPARTIFACT-58. 

  Changes:

o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them 
  between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : 
  commons-collections v3.1 -> v3.0 commons-httpclient v2.0 -> v2.0.2 
  commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -> v1.0 commons-jexl v1.0-beta-1 -> v1.0 
  commons-logging v1.0.3 -> v1.0.4 commons-net v1.1.0 -> v1.4.0 
  plexus-utils v1.0-alpha-3 -> v1.0.3 Fixes MAVEN-1712. 
o When rewriting POM, versions of dependencies overrided are resolved.  

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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://cvs.apache.org/repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-artifact-plugin
  -Dversion=1.7-SNAPSHOT

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-artifact-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Artifact Plugin development team