diff --git a/console/plugin.jelly b/console/plugin.jelly
index a8a00e1b..d1aa686c 100644
--- a/console/plugin.jelly
+++ b/console/plugin.jelly
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         <j:when test="${goal.indexOf('=') != '-1'}">
           <util:tokenize var="propertyPieces" delim="=">${goal}</util:tokenize>
           <log:info>Setting property ${propertyPieces[0]} to ${propertyPieces[1]}</log:info>
-          <j:set var="${propertyPieces[0]}" value="${propertyPieces[1]}" />
+          <j:set var="${propertyPieces[0]}" value="${propertyPieces[1]}" scope="parent" />
         </j:when>
         <j:when test="${goal=='help'}">
           <attainGoal name="console:help"/>
diff --git a/console/xdocs/changes.xml b/console/xdocs/changes.xml
index eb0e6915..cf7546a9 100644
--- a/console/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/console/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   <body>
     <release version="1.1-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
       <action dev="brett" type="add" issue="MPCONSOLE-2">Add some whitespace before goal</action>
+      <action dev="brett" type="fix">Set properties in parent scope so it takes effect for plugin properties</action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.0" date="2003-09-29">
       <action dev="smor" type="add">
