jfiglet-maven-plugin
Introduction
Maven plugin which wraps jfiglet to allow execution for "reasons", maybe you could include the a version number figlet'd in your release notes.
Sample Execution
$ mvn io.github.mcwarman:jfiglet-maven-plugin:0.0.2:generate -Dmessage="jfiglet-maven-plugin"
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
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[INFO] --- jfiglet-maven-plugin:0.0.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
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| | | _| | | | (_| | | | | __/ | |_ |_____| | | | | | | | (_| | \ V / | __/ | | | | |_____| | |_) | | | | |_| | | (_| | | | | | | |
_/ | |_| |_| \__, | |_| \___| \__| |_| |_| |_| \__,_| \_/ \___| |_| |_| | .__/ |_| \__,_| \__, | |_| |_| |_|
|__/ |___/ |_| |___/
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 0.679 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-06-07T11:14:43+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/245M
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Performing Release
git flow release start 0.0.3
mvn versions:set -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -DnewVersion=0.0.3
git commit -a -m "Increment release [0.0.3]"
git flow release finish 0.0.3
mvn versions:set -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -DnewVersion=0.0.4-SNAPSHOT
git commit -a -m "Increment snapshot release [0.0.4-SNAPSHOT]"
git push --mirror