diff --git a/pmd/project.xml b/pmd/project.xml
index ce590e19..7c2aa67d 100644
--- a/pmd/project.xml
+++ b/pmd/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-pmd-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven PMD Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.6-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.6</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/reference/plugins/pmd/</url>
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@
       <name>1.5</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_PMD_1_5</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.6</id>
+      <name>1.6</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_PMD_1_6</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>