The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Plugin Plugin, version 2.7
The Maven Plugin Plugin is used to create a Maven plugin descriptor for any Mojo's found in the source tree, to include in the JAR. It is also used to generate report files for the Mojos as well as for updating the plugin registry, the artifact metadata and generating a generic help goal. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-plugin-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.7</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Plugin Tools - Version 2.7 ** Bug * [MPLUGIN-165] - Upgrading to Maven Site 2.1 messes up plugin site generation * [MPLUGIN-180] - Encoding issues with reports ** Improvement * [MPLUGIN-170] - Mark plugin as thread-safe * [MPLUGIN-171] - Mark generated help goal as thread-safe * [MPLUGIN-176] - helpmojo: Use Java 5 generics in generated help mojo * [MPLUGIN-178] - Generated help mojo should indicate parameter expression and required status Enjoy, -The Maven team