diff --git a/faq/plugin.jelly b/faq/plugin.jelly
index a869b2e2..025add4c 100644
--- a/faq/plugin.jelly
+++ b/faq/plugin.jelly
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@
 
   <goal name="faq:init">
 
+    <mkdir dir="${maven.faq.src}" />
     <fileScanner var="fmlFiles">
       <fileset dir="${maven.faq.src}" includes="**/*.fml"/>
     </fileScanner>
diff --git a/faq/project.xml b/faq/project.xml
index 41084f3e..3cb29ac2 100644
--- a/faq/project.xml
+++ b/faq/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-faq-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven FAQ Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.3</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.4-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <gumpRepositoryId>jakarta</gumpRepositoryId>
   <description>Creates XDoc documentation from an FAQ XML document.</description>
   <shortDescription>FAQ Plugin</shortDescription>
diff --git a/faq/xdocs/changes.xml b/faq/xdocs/changes.xml
index 0f07c63c..71200a6d 100644
--- a/faq/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/faq/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
     <author email="dion@apache.org">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.4-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPFAQ-12">Make sure maven.faq.src exists to avoid exceptions</action>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.3" date="2004-05-15">
       <action dev="vmassol" type="update" issue="MPFAQ-9">Only register/deregister the FAQ reports if there are
         <code>.fml</code>files present in the project.
