We are pleased to announce the Maven Source Control Management Plugin 
1.6-SNAPSHOT release! 

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

A plugin for SCM tasks, currently CVS. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o New scm:checkin goal. Fixes MPSCM-47,MPSCM-54. 
o Add Starteam support, plus scm:add, scm:status, scm:checkin. Fixes 
  MPSCM-56. 

  Fixed bugs:

o When pom.repository.connection ends with '/' checkout fails. Fixes 
  MPSCM-65. Thanks to Phil Steitz. 
o Re-add changes.xml file to display announcements. Fixes MPSCM-57. 

  Changes:

o Make it possible to check changes made by prepare-release before they are 
  checked in and tagged. New property maven.scm.testmode. Fixes MPSCM-77. 
o Update to maven-scm 1.0-beta-2. Fixes MPSCM-68.  

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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-scm-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6-SNAPSHOT

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-scm-plugin-1.6-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Source Control Management Plugin development team