Hi Iulian
There was a recent change on how JRebel handles generation of rebel.xml.
Instead of either always generating the file or never generating it, JRebel plugin tries to detect if there have been manual changes to rebel.xml after the last time the file was generated.
If that is the case, it respects the changes and does not regenerate the rebel.xml. Otherwise it presumes that it can update the file.
Is that how it is working for you and if so, does it somehow break your workflow?
Vootele