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+The Maven team is pleased to announce the Checkstyle plugin 2.0 release!
+
+http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/checkstyle/
+
+The Maven Checkstyle plugin is a plugin for Checkstyle
+(http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net) that allows for code
+to be checked and a Maven report produced
+
+Changes in this version:
+
+Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven HEAD. Using it with
+another version of Maven is at your own risks! :-)
+
+You can download the Checkstyle Maven plugin here:
+http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin-2.0.jar
+
+Have fun!
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