diff --git a/castor/announcements/1.1.ann b/castor/announcements/1.1.ann
index 5f7c5349..1154c780 100644
--- a/castor/announcements/1.1.ann
+++ b/castor/announcements/1.1.ann
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ The Maven team is pleased to announce the Castor plugin 1.1 release!
 
 http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/castor/
 
-A plugin for converting providing access to Castor from Maven
+A plugin for providing access to Castor from Maven
 
 User-visible changes in this version:
 
-- enables the mapping of namespaces for imported schemas to java packages. 
-  See http://castor.exolab.org/SourceGeneratorUser.pdf for details.
-- allows the directory containing castorbuilder.properties to be specified via the property 'maven.castor.properties.dir'
-- updates the castor jar dependency from 0.9.4.3 to 0.9.5 
+- the directory containing a customised castorbuilder.properties
+  file may now be specified via the property 'maven.castor.properties.dir',
+  to configure source code generation
+- updates the castor jar dependency from 0.9.4.3 to 0.9.5
 
 Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven 1.0 rc1.
 Using it with another version of Maven is at your own risk!