diff --git a/scm/plugin.jelly b/scm/plugin.jelly
index c947d134..a3ee5d24 100644
--- a/scm/plugin.jelly
+++ b/scm/plugin.jelly
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
       stylesheet="${plugin.resources}/pom-release.jsl"
       outputMode="xml"
       omitXmlDeclaration="false"
-      prettyPrint="true"
+      prettyPrint="false"
       />
     <log:info>Committing new POM</log:info>
     <ant:cvs command="commit -m '[maven-scm] prepare a release' project.xml"
diff --git a/scm/project.xml b/scm/project.xml
index 464b5fc8..2c41214f 100644
--- a/scm/project.xml
+++ b/scm/project.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <extend>../project.xml</extend>
   <id>maven-scm-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Source Control Management Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.0</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>A plugin for SCM tasks, currently CVS.</description>
   <shortDescription>SCM Plugin for Maven</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/scm/</url>
diff --git a/scm/src/plugin-resources/pom-release.jsl b/scm/src/plugin-resources/pom-release.jsl
index b7089642..074070ea 100644
--- a/scm/src/plugin-resources/pom-release.jsl
+++ b/scm/src/plugin-resources/pom-release.jsl
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
   
   <jsl:template match="versions">
     <x:copy select=".">
+      <jsl:applyTemplates />
       <version>
         <id>${version_name}</id>
         <name>${version_name}</name>
         <tag>${tag_name}</tag>
       </version>
-      <jsl:applyTemplates />
     </x:copy> 
   </jsl:template>