diff --git a/artifact/plugin.jelly b/artifact/plugin.jelly
index 586afe30..9c6cc49d 100644
--- a/artifact/plugin.jelly
+++ b/artifact/plugin.jelly
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@
         basedir="${templateBasedir}"
         template="${template}"/>
     </define:tag> 
+    
+    <define:tag name="rewritePOM">
+      <maven:param-check value="${path}" fail="true" message="'path' must be specified"/>
+      <ant:echo>Rewriting POM...</ant:echo>
+      <j:invokeStatic className="org.apache.maven.artifact.PomRewriter" method="getRewrittenPom" var="pomFile">
+        <j:arg value="${pom}"/>
+      </j:invokeStatic>
+      <ant:copy file="${pomFile.path}" tofile="${path}"/>
+    </define:tag>
               
   </define:taglib>
 
diff --git a/artifact/project.xml b/artifact/project.xml
index b515f78f..427e85fe 100644
--- a/artifact/project.xml
+++ b/artifact/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <id>maven-artifact-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Artifact Plugin</name>
   <!-- WARNING: some dependency checks will break if we get to 1.10, need to go to 2.0 from there -->
-  <currentVersion>1.6.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.7-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. Requires Maven 1.1.</description>
   <shortDescription>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/artifact/</url>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index 526d4516..6264990a 100644
--- a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.6.1-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+    <release version="1.7-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
       <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPARTIFACT-58">Correct handling of directory without a leading /</action>
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="add">New tag artifact:rewritePOM : Rewrite a full model. Inheritence and expression are resolved.</action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.6" date="2005-07-30">
       <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPARTIFACT-55">Correct basedir for file:// URLs</action>
