diff --git a/artifact/plugin.jelly b/artifact/plugin.jelly
index cd3617c2..0397ecf4 100644
--- a/artifact/plugin.jelly
+++ b/artifact/plugin.jelly
@@ -367,36 +367,42 @@
       </j:if>
     
       <j:set var="mavenRepoLocal" value='${context.getVariable("maven.repo.local")}'/>
-      <ant:mkdir dir="${todir}"/>
-      <ant:copy todir="${todir}" flatten="true">
-        <!-- grab list of excludedItems up front -->
-        <j:if test="${excludes != ''}">
-          <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids -->
-          <util:tokenize var="excludeItems" delim=",">${excludes}</util:tokenize>
-        </j:if>
+      <!-- grab list of excludedItems up front -->
+      <j:if test="${excludes != ''}">
+        <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids -->
+        <util:tokenize var="excludeItems" delim=",">${excludes}</util:tokenize>
+      </j:if>
         
-        <!-- 
-         !   for each artifact, see if it is excluded. If not, add a fileset
-         !   to the copy
-         !--> 
-        <j:forEach var="lib" items="${pom.artifacts}">
-          <j:set var="excluded" value="false"/>
-          <j:if test="${excludes != ''}">
-            <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids, check if this id is in the list -->
-            <j:forEach var="exclude" items="${excludeItems}">
-              <!-- the exclude could be either the short name (e.g. artifactId), or the id -->
-              <j:if test="${(lib.dependency.id == exclude) or (lib.dependency.artifactId == exclude)}">
-                <j:set var="excluded" value="true"/>
-              </j:if>
-            </j:forEach>
-          </j:if>
-          <j:if test="${!excluded}">
+      <j:useList var="includedLibs" />
+      <!-- 
+       !   for each artifact, see if it is excluded. If not, add a fileset
+       !   to the copy
+       !--> 
+      <j:forEach var="lib" items="${pom.artifacts}">
+        <j:set var="excluded" value="false"/>
+        <j:if test="${excludes != ''}">
+          <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids, check if this id is in the list -->
+          <j:forEach var="exclude" items="${excludeItems}">
+            <!-- the exclude could be either the short name (e.g. artifactId), or the id -->
+            <j:if test="${(lib.dependency.id == exclude) or (lib.dependency.artifactId == exclude)}">
+              <j:set var="excluded" value="true"/>
+            </j:if>
+          </j:forEach>
+        </j:if>
+        <j:if test="${!excluded}">
+          ${includedLibs.add(lib)}
+        </j:if>
+      </j:forEach>
+      <j:if test="${size(includedLibs) != 0}">
+        <ant:mkdir dir="${todir}"/>
+        <ant:copy todir="${todir}" flatten="true">
+          <j:forEach var="lib" items="${includedLibs}">
             <ant:fileset dir="${lib.file.parent}">
               <ant:include name="${lib.file.name}"/>
             </ant:fileset>
-          </j:if>
-        </j:forEach>
-      </ant:copy>
+          </j:forEach>
+        </ant:copy>
+      </j:if>
     </define:tag>
 
   </define:taglib>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index a451c6e8..848ac95e 100644
--- a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.3" date="In CVS">
+      <action dev="brett" type="add" issue="MPARTIFACT-20">Fix opy-deps when list is empty</action>
+      <action dev="brett" type="add">Accept empty passphrase to ssh based deployers</action>
+      <action dev="brett" type="add">Default to maven.username if repository username not given</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="add">Add typeHandler parameter to tags to specify a custom handler</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="add">Switch between modern and legacy mode based on properties defined</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="add">Absorb the deploy plugin to give one point of migration</action>
