We are pleased to announce the Maven Artifact Plugin 1.9-SNAPSHOT release! 

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

  Changes:

o Update jelly dependency to match the ones in maven 1.1 core. 
o Include javadocs in created upload bundle. Fixes MPARTIFACT-67. 
o Upgrade Wagon dependencies : wagon-provider-api 1.0-beta-1, wagon-http 
  1.0-beta-1, wagon-file 1.0-beta-1, wagon-ftp 1.0-beta-1, wagon-ssh 
  1.0-beta-1, wagon-ssh-external 1.0-beta-1 Fixes MPARTIFACT-66. 
o Upgrade dependencies required by wagon : upgrade jsch 0.1.27 (instead of 
  0.1.14) and commons-net 1.4.1 (instead of 1.4.0). Fixes MPARTIFACT-66.  

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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-artifact-plugin
  -Dversion=1.9-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-1.9-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Artifact Plugin development team