Vincent Massol changes:release-version removes spaces after closing tags. It now requires Maven 1.1. The encoding of the changes.xml file is not preserved after doing release-version. New property maven.changes.outputencoding. Update dom4j dependency to match the one in maven 1.1 core. Replace the deprecated xmlParserAPIs by xml-apis 1.3.03. Upgrade to commons-io 1.2. Missing changes.xml makes report fail. Add icons used by this plugin. This must be independent of the xdoc plugin. Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated :

• dom4j v1.4-dev-8 -> v1.4
• xml-apis v 1.0.b2 -> xmlParserAPIs v2.6.2

Validate changes.xml. Add multiple due-to/due-to-email support. Add multiple issue support. The encoding of changes.xml is not preserved after scm:prepare-release. Fix XTHML 1.0 compliance. Document description attribute of release element. Add a live bookmark link for the RSS for Firefox. Added sorting of <action> elements. It is controlled by 2 properties. The maven.changes.sort property decides whether sorting is enabled or not and the maven.changes.sort.order one decides the sort order. Defaults to add,fix,update,remove. Fixed typo in changes.xml example on plugin web site. Close output file in ReleaseVersion.releaseVersion() Use the short notation for JIRA links ( %URL%/%ISSUE%). Add generation of RSS feed for current version changes "title" attribute added to images. Correction of links in "Release History". Fix issues with DOM classes and jdk1.3 Don't overwrite currentVersion if it already has a release date. Add unit tests. Added documentation for the format of changes.xml file. Fix anchor links in report Added new due-to and due-to-email attributes to the <action> element so that proper acknowledgments can be given. Added new issue attribute to <action> elements in changes.xml file. HTML tags entered inside <action> tags now show up in the generated report. Add the ability to transform a changes source file to resolve the current version and set the release date. Add test project Update to use maven.docs.*/maven.gen.docs Add index table of release. Add xml declaration to generated report. Fixed for character encoding. Fixed the xdocs which were simply a copy of the changelog plugin docs.