diff --git a/eclipse/project.xml b/eclipse/project.xml
index 5ce2f152..d65c4e4a 100644
--- a/eclipse/project.xml
+++ b/eclipse/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-eclipse-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Eclipse Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.8-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8</currentVersion>
   <description>A plugin to generate various files for the Eclipse IDE and ease the use of Maven within that environment.</description>
   <shortDescription>Eclipse Plugin for Maven</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/eclipse/</url>
diff --git a/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml b/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
index 16f4ffb8..374e71e7 100644
--- a/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <author email="dion@multitask.com.au">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.8" date="In CVS">
+    <release version="1.8" date="2004-08-14">
       <action dev="epugh" type="fix" issue="MPECLIPSE-37" due-to="Felipe Leme">Fixed a 'race condition' where Cactus dependency is added twice to .classpath.</action>
       <action dev="epugh" type="add" issue="MPECLIPSE-27" due-to="Kristopher Brown">Add eclipse:clean goal.</action>        
       <action dev="epugh" type="fix" issue="MPECLIPSE-36" due-to="Felipe Leme">Fixed a 'race condition' where JUnit dependency is not added to .classpath.</action>
