We are pleased to announce the Maven Artifact Plugin 1.8-SNAPSHOT release! 

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

Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. *WARNING*: This version of the 
artifact-plugin requires Maven 1.1. People using Maven 1.0 should NOT use this 
version of the plugin. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o New goal artifact:create-upload-bundle that replaces deprecated 
  create-upload-bundle. Fixes MPARTIFACT-64. 

  Changes:

o Rewrite the POM generated with artifact:create-upload-bundle. 
o Upgrade to HttpClient 3.0. Fixes MAVEN-1739.  

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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=1.8-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-1.8-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Artifact Plugin development team