The Announcement plugin generates release announcements. It uses the information found in both the POM and in the changes.xml file to generate the announcement text.
'maven:maven-announcement-plugin:1.2'
<dependency>
<groupId>maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-announcement-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="maven" name="maven-announcement-plugin" rev="1.2"/>
"maven", "maven-announcement-plugin", "1.2"