What is stable version for jasperreports-maven-plugin?

Question

In my project, I am using Maven 3.0.4 and using JasperReports 5.1.0. To compile the JRXML file, using the jasperreports-maven-plugins. I have the jasperreports-maven-plugin with version 1.0-beta-2. Since it was beta version (1.0-beta-2) Can i know, what is stable version of jasperreports-maven-plugin available to be use?

Below the plugin used in my pom.xml file

<properties>
      <jasperreports.version>5.1.0</jasperreports.version>
</properties>

<build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>jasperreports-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-beta-2</version>
            <configuration>
               <sourceDirectory>src/main/resources/reports</sourceDirectory>
               <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes/reports</outputDirectory>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <!-- Need to bind to the compile phase cuz the reports uses classes under target/classes. The default is the generate-resources phase. -->
                  <phase>compile</phase>
                  <goals>
                     <goal>compile-reports</goal>
                  </goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
            <dependencies>
               <dependency>
                  <groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
                  <artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
                  <version>${jasperreports.version}</version>
               </dependency>
               <dependency>
                  <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
                  <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0.1</version>
                  <scope>compile</scope>
                  <optional>true</optional>
               </dependency>
            </dependencies>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>

Answer 1

Forget about the official maven plugin. I've been using alexnederlof's Jasper report maven plugin for a long time and works like a charm.

You can find more info at github:

The original jasperreports-maven-plugin from org.codehaus.mojo was a bit slow. This plugin is 10x faster. I tested it with 52 reports which took 48 seconds with the original plugin and only 4.7 seconds with this plugin.

and in his blog:

The original plug-in is created in Java 4, works single-threaded and the last time any committed to the repo was (at time of writing) 31st of August, 2009. Not really an active project it seems.