M1 Tip#10: Discover plugin releases
There's a useful plugin in Maven 1 called the Multichanges plugin. It's meant to be used un a multiproject scenario and it will create a report listing the latest releases of all plugins. It uses the
changes.xml files to discover this information.
Thus if you want to be kept aware of the latest Maven 1.x plugin releases you can this Multichanges report. Please note that this report lists only the Maven plugins provided by the Maven project itself. There are other Maven plugins in the wild, such as on the Maven-plugins SF project.
What would be even better would to improve the Multichanges plugin by adding a RSS feed to it, and the best would to have a service in the Maven repository itself that would provide this information. Fortunately Maven2 is heading in this direction…
