diff --git a/ant/project.xml b/ant/project.xml
index 248633de..6568331d 100644
--- a/ant/project.xml
+++ b/ant/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-ant-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Ant Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.8</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Generates ant build files from a maven project, so that plain ant users can build your project</description>
   <shortDescription>Generate Ant build file</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ant/</url>
diff --git a/ant/src/plugin-test/maven.xml b/ant/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
index 9f91c976..d988dab6 100644
--- a/ant/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
+++ b/ant/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@
 
     <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.build.dest}/directory-1/file1.properties"/>
     <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.build.dest}/file2.properties"/>
+    <!-- there are no unit test sources present, so the resources wont be copied either
     <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.test.dest}/directory-1/file1.properties"/>
-    <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.test.dest}/file2.properties"/>
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.test.dest}/file2.properties"/-->
 
     <delete file="${basedir}/build.xml"/>
   </goal>
diff --git a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
index 2da9b6b6..b10a15fb 100644
--- a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
     <author email="dion@multitask.com.au">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.8.1-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+    </release>
     <release version="1.8" date="2004-07-20">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPANT-9" due-to="Jan Nielsen">Add ant's setproxy tag.</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPANT-16" due-to="Brent Worden" due-to-email="brent@worden.org">Use relative paths in directory properties.</action>
