diff --git a/pmd/project.xml b/pmd/project.xml
index 19a12cbb..0d2dd8ed 100644
--- a/pmd/project.xml
+++ b/pmd/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-pmd-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven PMD Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.7</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>The Maven PMD plugin is a plugin that wraps the PMD framework (http://pmd.sourceforge.net). PMD is a source checking framework that works by scanning Java source code and looks for potential problems like: unused local variables, empty catch blocks, unused parameters, empty 'if' statements, etc.</description>
   <shortDescription>Maven Plugin for PMD</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/reference/plugins/pmd/</url>