We are pleased to announce the Maven POM Plugin 1.5.1-SNAPSHOT release! 

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

Basic validation and updating mechanisms for your Project Object Model. 

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Changes in this version include:

  Changes:

o Update dom4j dependency to match the ones in maven 1.1 core.  

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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-pom-plugin
  -Dversion=1.5.1-SNAPSHOT

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-pom-plugin-1.5.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven POM Plugin development team