I have updated RAT so that the changes plugin can be used to generate the release notes.
The command to do this is: mvn changes:announcement-generate -Prelease-notes [-Dchanges.version=0.11] (this is documented in changs.xml). The changes plugin only supports generating output from a single version, so if we want to keep historic release notes, we have two choices: 1) maintain a separate historical release notes file and copy the data across on a new release 2) add the historical data to the changes/release-notes.vm file Otherwise we can do as Commons do which is to generate release notes for the current release only, and have the historical releases as the Changes report on the website, for example: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/changes-report.html I have started copying the data from R_N.txt into changes.xml. S.
