diff --git a/dist/plugin.jelly b/dist/plugin.jelly
index f863b475..b06b00a8 100644
--- a/dist/plugin.jelly
+++ b/dist/plugin.jelly
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
   xmlns:ant="jelly:ant"
   xmlns:maven="jelly:maven"
   xmlns:artifact="artifact"
+  xmlns:assert="assert"
   xmlns:util="jelly:util">
 
 
@@ -135,13 +136,18 @@
         <ant:include name="NOTICE*"/>
         <ant:include name="project.properties"/>
         <ant:include name="maven.xml"/>
-        <ant:include name="project.xml"/>
         <j:forEach items="${includelist}" var="includeitem">
           <ant:include name="${includeitem}" />
         </j:forEach>
       </ant:fileset>
     </ant:copy>
 
+    <!-- We can't use it in the bootstrap phase because classes aren't yet build in the artifact plugin. -->
+    <j:if test="${bootstrapping == null}">
+      <assert:assertPluginAvailable groupId="maven" artifactId="maven-artifact-plugin" minRelease="1.7" neededBy="${plugin.artifactId}"/>
+      <artifact:rewritePOM path="${maven.dist.src.assembly.dir}/project.xml"/>
+    </j:if>
+
     <!-- ant plugin < 1.10 -->
     <maven:get var="antScript" plugin="maven-ant-plugin" property="maven.ant.generatebuild.file"/>
 
diff --git a/dist/xdocs/changes.xml b/dist/xdocs/changes.xml
index aba638a4..ccf71ad0 100644
--- a/dist/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/dist/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.7-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPDIST-11">Parent project is not included in source distribution.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPDIST-17">New property maven.dist.formats to allow creation of only zip or tar.gz archives.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPDIST-26">Allow distribution of artifact types other than jar. New property maven.dist.bin.artifact.type, deprecated property maven.dist.bin.artifact.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPDIST-19">New property <code>maven.dist.bin.include.site</code> to optionally include the site docs in the binary distribution.</action>
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
       </action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPDIST-24"><code>dist:prepare-src-filesystem</code> doesn't recognize <code>maven.ant.generatebuild.file</code>.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MAVEN-1712">Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-logging v1.0.3 to v1.0.4, maven v1.0 to v1.0.2, maven-model v3.0.0 to v3.0.1</action>
-      <action dev="aheritier" type="update">It requires at least maven-artifact-plugin v1.3.</action>
+      <action dev="ltheussl" type="update">It requires at least maven-artifact-plugin v1.7.</action>
       <action dev="akarasulu" type="add">Added multiproject analogs mirroring single project goals.  Also added the abiltiy to generate combined javadocs for multiproject distribution.  However multiproject consolidation might be best put into the site plugin.  These fixes are associated with the following <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDIST-20">JIRA enhancement issue</a>.</action>
       <action dev="vmassol" type="remove" issue="MPDIST-18">Removed unused properties: <code>maven.dist.tar.executable</code> and <code>maven.dist.gunzip.executable</code>.</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="update">Make compatible with Maven 1.1</action>
diff --git a/dist/xdocs/index.xml b/dist/xdocs/index.xml
index 427d6e42..ae2af934 100644
--- a/dist/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/dist/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@
     <section name="Requirements">
       <p>Be careful, the following plugins must be installed to use the distribution plugin :</p>
       <ul>
-        <li>maven-artifact-plugin 1.3 (at least)</li>
+        <li>maven-artifact-plugin 1.7 (at least)</li>
       </ul>
+      <p>Note that this plugin is not compatible with Maven 1.0.2.</p>
     </section>
  </body>
 </document>
