diff --git a/commons-rng-core/src/changes/changes.xml b/commons-rng-core/src/changes/changes.xml
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--- a/commons-rng-core/src/changes/changes.xml
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@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
--->
-
-<!--
-This file is used by the maven-changes-plugin to generate the release notes.
-Useful ways of finding items to add to this file are:
-
-1.  Add items when you fix a bug or add a feature (this makes the
-release process easy :-).
-
-2.  Do a JIRA search for tickets closed since the previous release.
-
-3.  Use the report generated by the maven-changelog-plugin to see all
-SVN commits.
-
-To generate the file RELEASE-NOTES.txt from this file:
-
-mvn changes:announcement-generate -Prelease-notes [-Dchanges.version]
-
-The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
--->
-
-<!-- NOTE:
-The description attribute entries below are specially formatted 
-so as to improve the layout of the generated text release notes.
-
-The parsing process removes all line feeds, replacing them with a single space.
-The Velocity template in src/changes/release-notes.vm has been enhanced to replace pairs of adjacent spaces
-with a new-line in the release notes. (These spaces are ignored when displaying HTML).
-If the output is not quite correct, check for invisible trailing spaces!
--->
-
-<document>
-  <properties>
-    <title>Apache Commons RNG Release Notes</title>
-  </properties>
-  <body>
-    <release version="1.0" date="2016-09-20" description="
-This is the first release of Apache Commons RNG.
-
-The minimum version of the Java platform required to compile and use
- Apache Commons RNG 1.0 is Java 6.
-">
-      <!-- <action dev="erans" type="fix" issue="RNG-xxx"> -->
-      <!-- </action> -->
-    </release>
-
-  </body>
-</document>
diff --git a/commons-rng-core/src/changes/release-notes.vm b/commons-rng-core/src/changes/release-notes.vm
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index cc1b18c..0000000
--- a/commons-rng-core/src/changes/release-notes.vm
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@@ -1,140 +0,0 @@
-## Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-## or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-## distributed with this work for additional information
-## regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-## to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-## "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-## with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-##
-##  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-##
-## Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-## software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-## "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-## KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-## specific language governing permissions and limitations
-## under the License.
-
-              ${project.name} ${version} RELEASE NOTES
-
-The ${developmentTeam} is pleased to announce the release of ${finalName}
-
-$introduction.replaceAll("(?<!\015)\012", "
-")
-
-## N.B. the available variables are described here:
-## http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/examples/using-a-custom-announcement-template.html
-##
-## Hack to improve layout: replace all pairs of spaces with a single new-line
-$release.description.replaceAll("  ", "
-")
-
-#if ($release.getActions().size() == 0)
-No changes defined in this version.
-#else
-Changes in this version include:
-
-## indent to be used if there is no issue attribute.
-## should be the same as the indent in the changes.xml file
-## less 2 spaces for the 'o' and trailing space
-#set($indent='          ')
-#if ($release.getActions('add').size() !=0)
-New features:
-#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('add'))
-## Use replaceAll to fix up LF-only line ends on Windows.
-#set($action=$actionItem.getAction().replaceAll("\n","
-"))
-#if ($actionItem.getIssue())
-#set($issue=$actionItem.getIssue())
-#else
-#set($issue="")
-#end
-#if ($actionItem.getDueTo())
-#set($dueto=$actionItem.getDueTo())
-#else
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-o#if($!issue != "") $issue: #else$indent#end ${action} #if($!dueto != "")Thanks to $dueto. #end
-
-#set($issue="")
-#set($dueto="")
-#end 
-#end
-
-#if ($release.getActions('fix').size() !=0)
-Fixed Bugs:
-#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('fix'))
-## Use replaceAll to fix up LF-only line ends on Windows.
-#set($action=$actionItem.getAction().replaceAll("\n","
-"))
-#if ($actionItem.getIssue())
-#set($issue=$actionItem.getIssue())
-#else
-#set($issue="")
-#end
-#if ($actionItem.getDueTo())
-#set($dueto=$actionItem.getDueTo())
-#else
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-o#if($!issue != "") $issue: #else$indent#end ${action} #if($!dueto != "")Thanks to $dueto. #end
-
-#set($issue="")
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-#end
-
-#if ($release.getActions('update').size() !=0)
-Changes:
-#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('update'))
-## Use replaceAll to fix up LF-only line ends on Windows.
-#set($action=$actionItem.getAction().replaceAll("\n","
-"))
-#if ($actionItem.getIssue())
-#set($issue=$actionItem.getIssue())
-#else
-#set($issue="")
-#end
-#if ($actionItem.getDueTo())
-#set($dueto=$actionItem.getDueTo())
-#else
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-o#if($!issue != "") $issue: #else$indent#end ${action} #if($!dueto != "")Thanks to $dueto. #end
-
-#set($issue="")
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-#end
-
-#if ($release.getActions('remove').size() !=0)
-Removed:
-#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('remove'))
-## Use replaceAll to fix up LF-only line ends on Windows.
-#set($action=$actionItem.getAction().replaceAll("\n","
-"))
-#if ($actionItem.getIssue())
-#set($issue=$actionItem.getIssue())
-#else
-#set($issue="")
-#end
-#if ($actionItem.getDueTo())
-#set($dueto=$actionItem.getDueTo())
-#else
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-o#if($!issue != "") $issue: #else$indent#end ${action} #if($!dueto != "")Thanks to $dueto. #end
-
-#set($issue="")
-#set($dueto="")
-#end
-#end
-## End of main loop
-#end
-
-For complete information on ${project.name}, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
-patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the ${project.name} website:
-
-${project.url}
-
-