diff --git a/artifact/project.xml b/artifact/project.xml
index 98e7219e..e1994eed 100644
--- a/artifact/project.xml
+++ b/artifact/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-artifact-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Artifact Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.9-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. *WARNING*: This version of the artifact-plugin requires Maven 1.1. People using Maven 1.0 should NOT use this version of the plugin.</description>
   <shortDescription>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment</shortDescription>
   <versions>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index bfca1b8a..4a5eb03a 100644
--- a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.9-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
+    <release version="1.8.1-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Use a custom build of velocity (1.5-20060721.044818) to wait for a release of velocity 1.5 which will fix the issue VELOCITY-193 (The horrible error : "log4j:ERROR Attempted to append to closed appender named [null]").</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="update">Update jelly dependency to match the ones in maven 1.1 core.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="update" issue="MPARTIFACT-67">Include javadocs in created upload bundle.</action>
