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

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

Maven Plugin management plugin. 

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Changes in this version include:

  Changes:

o Update dependencies to unify them between plugins. The following 
  dependencies are updated : commons-jelly-tags-interaction v1.0 to v1.1, 
  jaxen v1.0-FCS-full to 1.1-beta-9. The following dependencies are removed : 
  saxpath. 
o Upgrade to Xerces 2.8.0. Replace the deprecated xmlParserAPIs by xml-apis 
  1.3.03. Add the xml-resolver dependency for xerces. Fixes MAVEN-1753.  

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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-plugin-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-plugin-plugin-1.8-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Plugin Plugin development team