diff --git a/changes/project.xml b/changes/project.xml
index 943ae330..46a4485b 100644
--- a/changes/project.xml
+++ b/changes/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-changes-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Changes Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.6.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.7-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <shortDescription>Produce changes report</shortDescription>
   <versions>
     <version>
diff --git a/changes/xdocs/changes.xml b/changes/xdocs/changes.xml
index bb6b60ad..9e00c611 100644
--- a/changes/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/changes/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
     <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="ltheussl" type="update">It now requires Maven 1.1.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPCHANGES-32">The encoding of the changes.xml file is not preserved after doing release-version.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add">New property maven.changes.outputencoding.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="update">Update dom4j dependency to match the one in maven 1.1 core.</action>
diff --git a/changes/xdocs/index.xml b/changes/xdocs/index.xml
index b443ed0a..004e8821 100644
--- a/changes/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/changes/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
         This plugin produces a changes report showing the differences 
         between different releases of the project using it.
       </p>
+      <p>
+        <strong>Warning:</strong> From version 1.7 on, this plugin requires Maven 1.1.
+      </p>
     </section>
     <section name="Using the plugin">
       <p>