diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a66d1e1..bd7da28 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.5</version>
+                <version>2.4</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>validate-changes</id>
@@ -228,10 +228,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.3</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <issueLinkTemplate>http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/issues/detail?id=%ISSUE%</issueLinkTemplate>
-                </configuration>
+                <version>2.4</version>
                 <reportSets>
                     <reportSet>
                         <reports>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 9226a00..345c6cf 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 	</properties>
 	<body>
 	    <release version="1.9-SNAPSHOT" date="in Mercurial" description="Development">
+            <action dev="py4fun" type="update" issue="126">
+                Update maven-changes-plugin. 'issueLinkTemplate' property has become redundant (2011-07-10)
+            </action>
             <action dev="py4fun" type="remove" issue="124">
                 Remove deprecated JavaBeanParser (2011-07-05)
             </action>