[ANN] Maven Plugin Tools 2.4.2 Released

[Dennis Lundberg <de...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Plugin
Tools, version 2.4.2

The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to be able to
produce Maven Plugins in a variety of languages.

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

You can run mvn -up to get the latest version of the plugin, or specify
the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.4.2</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Plugin Tools - Version 2.4.2


** Bug
     * [MPLUGIN-92] - helpmojo resulting mojo requires a project and
performs multiple times
     * [MPLUGIN-93] - Use correct encoding for plugin-registry.xml
     * [MPLUGIN-94] - Use correct encoding for plugin descriptor
     * [MPLUGIN-96] - Handle character encoding properly in makeHtmlValid()
     * [MPLUGIN-97] - Use correct encoding for plugin metadata
     * [MPLUGIN-99] - Do not document help goal twice
     * [MPLUGIN-107] - Escape special characters in string literals used
by HelpMojo
     * [MPLUGIN-108] - Incorrect minimum Maven version reported in
plugin documentation
     * [MPLUGIN-114] - PluginXdocGenerator NullPointerException
     * [MPLUGIN-118] - missing / in closing tag in generated pom snippet
     * [MPLUGIN-119] - Regression when generating site (mojo description
pages) for my own maven plugins
     * [MPLUGIN-121] - Plugin document report contains invalid XML in
'Usage' section.
     * [MPLUGIN-123] - mvn some-plugin:help command requires a valid pom.xml

** Improvement
     * [MPLUGIN-95] - Output proper charset name in XDoc report for mojos
     * [MPLUGIN-98] - Remove javadoc inline tags from output of help mojo
     * [MPLUGIN-112] - Respect line breaks from Javadoc when generating
help goal
     * [MPLUGIN-113] - Improve generated help mojo to control output
(indent, width)
     * [MPLUGIN-115] - Limit detail help output to a single goal
     * [MPLUGIN-116] - Improve XHTML compliance
     * [MPLUGIN-117] - Emphasize goal/parameter deprecation


Enjoy,

-The Maven team