diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/invoker.properties b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/invoker.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f02de5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/invoker.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# 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.
+
+invoker.goals = clean plugin:report
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..628999d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+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 xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins.its.plugin</groupId>
+  <artifactId>report-since</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
+
+  <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <pluginManagement>
+      <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.3.2</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>@project.version@</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>@sitePluginVersion@</version>
+        </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+    </pluginManagement>
+  </build>
+
+  <reporting>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.4</version>
+        <reportSets>
+          <reportSet>
+            <reports>
+              <report>index</report>
+            </reports>
+          </reportSet>
+        </reportSets>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>@project.version@</version>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </reporting>
+</project>
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/src/main/java/org/MyMojo.java b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/src/main/java/org/MyMojo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..915a2db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/src/main/java/org/MyMojo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package org;
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
+
+/**
+ * Does nothing.
+ * 
+ * @goal noop
+ * @phase process-sources
+ * @requiresDependencyResolution test
+ * @requiresDirectInvocation true
+ * @requiresOnline
+ * @inheritByDefault false
+ * @execute phase="compile"
+ * @aggregator
+ * @since 1.0
+ * 
+ * @deprecated You don't use test goals, do you?
+ */
+public class MyMojo
+    extends AbstractMojo
+{
+
+    /**
+     * This is a test.
+     * 
+     * @parameter
+     * @required
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings( "unused" )
+    private String required;
+
+    /**
+     * This is a test.
+     * 
+     * @parameter expression="${string}" default-value="${project.version}/</markup-must-be-escaped>"
+     * @deprecated Just testing.
+     * @since 1.1
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings( "unused" )
+    private String string;
+
+    public void execute()
+    {
+        // intentional do nothing
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/verify.groovy b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/verify.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..294a0c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/mplugin-329_report-since/verify.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+assert new File( basedir, 'target/generated-site' ).exists()
+
+content = new File( basedir, 'target/generated-site/xdoc/noop-mojo.xml' ).text
+
+assert content.contains( '<li><strong>Since</strong>: <code>1.0</code></li>' )
+assert content.contains( '<li><strong>Since</strong>: <code>1.1</code></li>' )
+
+return true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/plugin-info-jdk/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/plugin-info-jdk/pom.xml
index a184f45..5404a98 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/plugin-info-jdk/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/plugin-info-jdk/pom.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ under the License.
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>@project.version@</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <!-- ignore MNG-6109 issue -->
+          <pluginXmlSpec>[2.0,)</pluginXmlSpec>
+        </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </reporting>
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/PluginReport.java b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/PluginReport.java
index 4bc7a58..8c085fe 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/PluginReport.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/plugin/PluginReport.java
@@ -19,10 +19,24 @@ package org.apache.maven.plugin.plugin;
  * under the License.
  */
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.ResourceBundle;
+import java.util.Set;
+
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
+import org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.InvalidVersionSpecificationException;
+import org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.VersionRange;
 import org.apache.maven.doxia.sink.Sink;
 import org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.Renderer;
+import org.apache.maven.execution.RuntimeInformation;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Plugin;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.InvalidPluginDescriptorException;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.MojoDescriptor;
@@ -50,17 +64,6 @@ import org.codehaus.plexus.configuration.PlexusConfigurationException;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.Xpp3Dom;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-import java.io.FileReader;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Locale;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.ResourceBundle;
-import java.util.Set;
-
 /**
  * Generates the Plugin's documentation report: <code>plugin-info.html</code> plugin overview page,
  * and one <code><i>goal</i>-mojo.html</code> per goal.
@@ -186,6 +189,19 @@ public class PluginReport
      */
     @Parameter( defaultValue = "${localRepository}", required = true, readonly = true )
     protected ArtifactRepository local;
+    
+    /**
+     * @since 3.5.1
+     */
+    @Component
+    private RuntimeInformation rtInfo;
+    
+    /**
+     * By default pluginXml should be read with Maven-3.4.0+ (MNG-6109)
+     * For some integration-tests this is not an issue, they can reduce this spec.
+     */
+    @Parameter( readonly = true )
+    private String pluginXmlSpec = "(3.3.9,)";
 
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
@@ -250,19 +266,22 @@ public class PluginReport
     private PluginDescriptor extractPluginDescriptor()
         throws MavenReportException
     {
-        PluginDescriptorBuilder builder = new PluginDescriptorBuilder();
-        try
+        if ( usePluginXml() )
         {
-            return builder.build( new FileReader( new File( project.getBuild().getOutputDirectory(),
-                                                            "META-INF/maven/plugin.xml" ) ) );
-        }
-        catch ( FileNotFoundException e )
-        {
-            getLog().debug( "Failed to read META-INF/maven/plugin.xml, fall back to mojoScanner" );
-        }
-        catch ( PlexusConfigurationException e )
-        {
-            getLog().debug( "Failed to read META-INF/maven/plugin.xml, fall back to mojoScanner" );
+            PluginDescriptorBuilder builder = new PluginDescriptorBuilder();
+            try
+            {
+                return builder.build( new FileReader( new File( project.getBuild().getOutputDirectory(),
+                                                                "META-INF/maven/plugin.xml" ) ) );
+            }
+            catch ( FileNotFoundException e )
+            {
+                getLog().debug( "Failed to read META-INF/maven/plugin.xml, fall back to mojoScanner" );
+            }
+            catch ( PlexusConfigurationException e )
+            {
+                getLog().debug( "Failed to read META-INF/maven/plugin.xml, fall back to mojoScanner" );
+            }
         }
 
         // Copy from AbstractGeneratorMojo#execute()
@@ -319,6 +338,19 @@ public class PluginReport
         return pluginDescriptor;
     }
 
+    private boolean usePluginXml()
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            VersionRange versionRange = VersionRange.createFromVersionSpec( pluginXmlSpec );
+            return versionRange.containsVersion( rtInfo.getApplicationVersion() );
+        }
+        catch ( InvalidVersionSpecificationException e )
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */