The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Clean Plugin, version 2.5
The Clean Plugin is used when you want to remove files generated at build-time in a project's directory. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Clean Plugin - Version 2.5 ** Bug * [MCLEAN-48] - Failure cleaning files containing special characters ** Improvement * [MCLEAN-45] - Clean plugin should support a silent retry in case the first attemp fails * [MCLEAN-46] - Enable useDefaultExcludes per Fileset Have Fun, -- The Apache Maven team