Hi, I'd like to release maven-changes-plugin 2.0-beta-3. Significant fixes are available in trunk and the latest release is almost one year old.
Release Notes - Maven 2.x Changes Plugin - Version 2.0-beta-3 ** Bug * [MCHANGES-1] - Annoucement generates announcement for wrong type of package * [MCHANGES-9] - HTML inside <action/> is swallowed * [MCHANGES-11] - improve error reporting when changes.xml not found * [MCHANGES-13] - Exception thrown when running changes:announcement-generate * [MCHANGES-16] - release history hyperlinks don't work * [MCHANGES-19] - bad URL/404 on JIRA report results in exception * [MCHANGES-23] - docs should use short goal names * [MCHANGES-50] - Handle JIRA authentication failure * [MCHANGES-51] - Table not correctly closed in ChangesReportGenerator#constructActions() * [MCHANGES-54] - jira-report with filter specified gives 500 error * [MCHANGES-56] - Default announcement.vm doesn't check issue type correctly. * [MCHANGES-57] - How does the plugin know what issues were fixed in this version? * [MCHANGES-63] - Custom filters can not be added to a JIRA query. * [MCHANGES-64] - The changes plugin should not push an "external link" image into the output renderer * [MCHANGES-68] - The changes plugin uses anchors and links that don't match. * [MCHANGES-70] - NPE if the version attribute is not set properly in the changes.xml file ** Improvement * [MCHANGES-49] - javax.mail dependency should be optional * [MCHANGES-55] - Add ability to turn off download URL in email * [MCHANGES-77] - Document the variables available to the announcement template. * [MCHANGES-81] - Use a less noisy version of plexus-velocity * [MCHANGES-87] - Ability to specify the mail sender explicitely ** New Feature * [MCHANGES-25] - I'd like to have changes:announcement-mail be able to support authentication * [MCHANGES-26] - Allow user to create custom velocity template for announcement * [MCHANGES-27] - Add 'disable jira' flag * [MCHANGES-28] - Renderer html code provided in an action record * [MCHANGES-79] - Allow for overriding the announcement email from address The staging bits are available here: http://people.apache.org/~snicoll/maven-staging/repo/org/apache/maven/plugins/ Votes open for 72 hours. My +1 Thanks, Stéphane -- Large Systems Suck: This rule is 100% transitive. If you build one, you suck" -- S.Yegge --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]