diff --git a/castor/announcements/1.1.ann b/castor/announcements/1.1.ann
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f7c5349
--- /dev/null
+++ b/castor/announcements/1.1.ann
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+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
+
+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 
+
+Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven 1.0 rc1.
+Using it with another version of Maven is at your own risk!
+
+You can install the plugin with Maven 1.0 rc1 or later using:
+maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-castor-plugin -Dversion=1.1  plugin:download
+
+You can download the plugin here:
+http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/plugins/maven-castor-plugin-1.1.jar
+
+Have fun!
+-dIon
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diff --git a/castor/project.xml b/castor/project.xml
index c9150c60..90e41279 100644
--- a/castor/project.xml
+++ b/castor/project.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-castor-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Castor Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.1</currentVersion>
   <description>Various goals for making development with Plexus easy.</description>
   <shortDescription>Plexus Tools</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/castor/</url>
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@
     <connection>scm:cvs:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic:maven-plugins/castor/</connection>
     <url>http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/maven-plugins/castor/</url>
   </repository>
+  <versions>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.1</id>
+      <name>1.1</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_CASTOR_1_1</tag>
+    </version>
+  </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
       <name>Jason van Zyl</name>
diff --git a/castor/xdocs/changes.xml b/castor/xdocs/changes.xml
index b09698c3..dd906e84 100644
--- a/castor/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/castor/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   </properties>
 
   <body>
-    <release version="1.1" date="in CVS">
+    <release version="1.1" date="2004-02-04">
       <action dev="tima" type="add">
         Added <em>maven.castor.properties.dir</em> property.
       </action>
diff --git a/castor/xdocs/navigation.xml b/castor/xdocs/navigation.xml
index e5335258..b459c49b 100644
--- a/castor/xdocs/navigation.xml
+++ b/castor/xdocs/navigation.xml
@@ -14,5 +14,8 @@
       <item name="Tags" href="/tags.html" />
       <item name="Examples" href="/examples.html" />
     </menu>
+    <menu name="Downloads">
+      <item name="v1.1" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/plugins/maven-castor-plugin-1.1.jar"/>
+    </menu>
   </body>
 </project>