[ANN] Maven Release Plugin 2.2 Released

[Stephen Connolly <st...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Release
Plugin, version 2.2

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of
repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps:
prepare and perform.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.2

** Bug
    * [MRELEASE-374] - Snapshot versions unusable in batch mode
    * [MRELEASE-622] - Creating label fails for ClearCase with message
'Unable to determine VOB for pathname ".".'
    * [MRELEASE-661] - Exception: String index out of range: -1

** Improvement
    * [MRELEASE-591] - release:update-versions: add option to do a checkin
    * [MRELEASE-605] - when not pushing changes to remote git repo in
2.1, the release plugin fails on release:perform
    * [MRELEASE-628] - Subversion --trust-server-cert option
    * [MRELEASE-641] - upgrade to scm 1.5 (hg plugin insists on 'pushing')

** New Feature
    * [MRELEASE-159] - Support a pattern to generate the release tag
    * [MRELEASE-457] - Non sparse-checkout SCM support
    * [MRELEASE-613] - Add a parameter that tells the plugin to wait
for X seconds before tagging
    * [MRELEASE-621] - Add a postPrepareGoals
    * [MRELEASE-648] - Putting SVN password in settings.xml doesn't
support password encryption

Enjoy,

-The Maven team