diff --git a/dist/project.xml b/dist/project.xml
index ffae71d7..a6128990 100644
--- a/dist/project.xml
+++ b/dist/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-dist-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Distribution Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.5-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.5</currentVersion>
   <shortDescription>Create source and binary distributions</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/dist/</url>
   <issueTrackingUrl>http://jira.codehaus.org/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10343</issueTrackingUrl>
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
       <name>1.4</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_DIST_1_4</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.5</id>
+      <name>1.5</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_DIST_1_5</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/dist/xdocs/changes.xml b/dist/xdocs/changes.xml
index 6f45c875..cde97d4d 100644
--- a/dist/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/dist/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,9 +24,12 @@
     <author email="vmassol@octo.com">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.5-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+    <release version="1.5" date="2004-05-15">
       <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPDIST-8">Switch from javadoc:generate to site:generate so that entire project site is included in the binary distribution.</action>
-      <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPDIST-2">Add properties <code>maven.dist.tar.executable</code> and <code>maven.dist.gunzip.executable</code> for specifying the remote executables for these functions</action>
+      <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPDIST-2">Add properties
+        <code>maven.dist.tar.executable</code>and
+        <code>maven.dist.gunzip.executable</code>for specifying the remote executables for these functions
+      </action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.4" date="2004-03-07">
       <action dev="dion" type="fix">Prefix basedir on copied ant build file. Only create ant build file if the project has source. Only copy maven.src.dir if it exists.</action>