Brett Porter Upgrade to commons-io 1.2. The encoding of the project.xml file is not preserved after doing release:transform. Handle poms with a namespace. Handle non-jar dependencies. Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated :

• maven v1.0-rc2 -> v1.0.2
• dom4j v1.4-dev-8 -> v1.4
• commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -> v1.0
• xml-apis v 1.0.b2 -> xmlParserAPIs v2.6.2

Make it possible to check changes made by prepare-release before they are checked in and tagged. New property maven.scm.testmode. Update to maven-scm 1.0-beta-2. When pom.repository.connection ends with '/' checkout fails. Re-add changes.xml file to display announcements. New scm:checkin goal. Add Starteam support, plus scm:add, scm:status, scm:checkin. Exception while executing SCM command. v1.5 is not compatible with 1.4.1. Avoid use of jelly empty operator. NullPointerException when setting checkout dir. Skip prompt for tag. Clarify "module" notation as used for CVS in regards to Subversion. Implement status check. Incorporate a released version of Maven SCM. scm:bootstrap fails on SVN project requiring username/password. scm:cvs-update-project uses developer connection. Update documentation after latest changes. Var delim not always ":" (on CVSNT "|"). Support starting and ending revision in diff bean/tag. Add the ability to pass a username and password to the Subversion provider. Check out into maven.scm.checkout.dirrather than a subdirectory of it. Use maven.scm.bootstrap.pom.dir. Add support for subversion. Rewritten to utilise the Maven SCM library. Ignore whitespace when creating a patch. Ignore POM if the scm root is specified in command line. Trim goals after prompting from the user. Add scm:cvs-create-patch goal to help in creating patches. Set default maven.scm.methodto cvs Add minimal support for SVN to allow cruisecontrol plugin to work. Add scm:cvs-tag-project goal. Don't use -C - Mac OS X doesn't recognise it. Catch exceptions to make sure files don't get moved permanently. Update POM using dom4j instead of JSL - no more formatting issues. Support :local: CVS paths Update changes.xml version and release date on prepare. Use developerConnection first, then standard connection when parsing connection from POM. Apply MAVEN-834. Support for scm delimiters other than ':' Turn off pretty printing to fix MAVEN-769 - random spaces added to project.xml. Add new versions to bottom of list instead of top to follow convention. Initial creation - support for CVS.