[ANN] Maven Plugin Plugin and Maven Plugin Tools 2.8 Released

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

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Plugin
Plugin and Maven Plugin Tools, version 2.8

This plugin is used to create a Maven plugin descriptor for any Mojo's
found in the source tree, to include in the JAR. It is also used to
generate report files for the Mojos as well as for updating the plugin
registry, the artifact metadata and generating a generic help goal.

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

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

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.8</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Plugin Tools - Version 2.8

** Improvement
    * [MPLUGIN-173] - Start using net.sf.jtidy artifact with correct
I/O encoding
    * [MPLUGIN-174] - add standard skip configuration option (on plugin:report)
    * [MPLUGIN-183] - When setting useJava5 to true the generated code
has warnings for Java 5 features
    * [MPLUGIN-184] - Upgrade to JDK5
    * [MPLUGIN-185] - check plugin naming conventions and issue a
warning in case of problem

Enjoy,

-The Maven team