This will be rather a short message - today I spent some time with the plugin as someone created a security issue related to obsoleted dependencies. So I did a bit more ...
- Migrated from Travis to GitHub Actions
- Excluded obsoleted Velocity and Struts transitive dependencies (unused, however ...)
- Replaced deprecated usages of commons-lang3 classes
- Replaced "closeSilently" by try-with (do you remember years where there weren't suppressed exceptions?)
Despite you can use property files with UTF-8 now, more usual is still Latin1+escapes. Then is better to write property files in human language and use this plugin to convert them to the "language of machines". Eclipse integration with this plugin works well too.