The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven Changelog Plugin 1.8 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/changelog/



Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Add VSS support Issue: MPCHANGELOG-49. Thanks to Freddy Mallet. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Determine default factory from connection - no need to configure for SCMs 
  other than CVS. Issue: MPCHANGELOG-23. 
o Corrected link for viewcvs configured with muliple cvs repository. Issue: 
  MPCHANGELOG-25. Thanks to Neil Palmer. 
o Correctly parse (no author) from SVN logs Issue: MPCHANGELOG-57. Thanks to 
  Sebastian Scholze. 
o Add CVS monitor support Issue: MPCHANGELOG-53. Thanks to Kenneth Leider. 
o Quote argument with < in it on Windows for the CVS provider - required 
  if using CVSNT Issue: MPCHANGELOG-47. 
o Fix problem parsing revisions on Linux introduced by MPCHANGELOG-29 Issue: 
  MPCHANGELOG-55. 
o Add the ability to show several sets of changes Issue: MPCHANGELOG-63. 
  Thanks to David Jackman. 
o Allow local CVSROOT to only have 5 tokens (no host name)  

To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download 
  -DgroupId=maven 
  -DartifactId=maven-changelog-plugin
  -Dversion=1.8

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-changelog-plugin-1.8.jar
         

Have fun!
-The maven team