# Announcement plugin changes

Vincent Massol

## 1.4-SNAPSHOT in SVN

Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated :

- commons-net v1.2.1 -> v1.4.0
- commons-jelly-tags-xml v1.0 -> v1.1

(update, MAVEN-1712, aheritier)
Support new format of `<action>` element in `changes.xml`. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-18, ltheussl)
CR-LF generated do not match the platform. (fix, MPANNOUNCEMENT-3, ltheussl)
Xml entities transformed in wrong direction. (fix, MPANNOUNCEMENT-10, ltheussl)
Modified the announcement text "`The ${pom.groupId} team is pleased...`" in favor of "`We are pleased...`" and changed the signature from "`The ${pom.groupId} team`" to "`The ${pom.name} development team`". (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-15, vmassol)
Add information about the Maven remote repo to use in the generated download instructions. Added a `maven.announcement.repo.remote` property that can be used to specify from which Maven remote repository the artifact for this project can be found. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-16, vmassol)

## 1.3 2004-08-10

Added check to verify that the POM has a `version`element for the announcement to be generated. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-14, vmassol, due to Felipe Leme)
Added new optional `maven.announcement.encoding`property that defines which charset encoding to use to generate the text announcement (defaults to UTF-8). (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-13, vmassol, due to Felipe Leme)
Added new `announcement:mail`goal to automatically send the generated announcement by email. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-9, vmassol, due to Felipe Leme)
Added new optional `maven.announcement.stylesheet.path`property that defines what stylesheet to use to generate the text announcement. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-11, vmassol, due to Felipe Leme)
Fixed error message when current version is not available at `xdocs/changes.xml`. (fix, MPANNOUNCEMENT-12, vmassol, due to Felipe Leme)

## 1.2 2004-07-08

Added new `announcement:generate-all`to generate announcement files for all releases. (add, vmassol)
Generates the announcement file in `${maven.gen.docs}/announcements`so that it is copied to the web site when this later is deployed. (update, vmassol)
Default announcement file name now contains the version in its name. (update, vmassol)

## 1.1 2004-05-15

Detect whether the project is a plugin or not by the existence of plugin.jelly in the project directory, and change the wording accordingly. (update, brett)
Added new `maven.announcement.distributionUrl`property which specifies where the project jars can be downloaded from. If not specified, it defaults to `${maven.repo.remote}/${pom.groupId}/plugins`. Once this property makes it into the POM we'll remove it. (add, vmassol)
The `maven.announcement.version`property does no longer needs to be defined. It defaults to `${pom.currentVersion}`if not defined. (update, vmassol)
Improved web site documentation. (add, vmassol)
Add a space after the "." of the "Issue: xxx." (which happens when you use the "issue" attribute in changes.xml). (fix, vmassol)
Added `description`information from the POM to the generated announcement to explain what the project does. (add, vmassol)
Added information in the generated announcement to indicate from where the plugin can be downloaded. (add, vmassol)
Added information in the generated announcement to indicate how to install the plugin using the `plugin:download`goal. (add, vmassol)
Added maven.announcement.file property and echo'd it during generation (update, dion)
Added more information when running the plugin. Also added a check to verify if the announcement version matches an entry in the `changes.xml`file. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-2, vmassol, due to Fabrizio Giustina)
Several new additions that makes the plugin more generic: the team name is now taken from `pom.groupId`, "[]" are removed from the first line, changes are sorted by type, changes report issue number and due-to, the download link is generated from `pom.distributionDirectory`and the "plugin has been tested with..." line has been removed. (add, MPANNOUNCEMENT-1, vmassol, due to Fabrizio Giustina)

## 1.0 2004-03-10

Update to ASL v.2 (update, evenisse)
Remove the need for ${pom} interpolation in properties. The use of the maven:property tag is now used to glean a default property. (update, jvanzyl)
Initial creation. (add, vmassol)