diff --git a/jira/project.xml b/jira/project.xml
index af000289..99dcb473 100644
--- a/jira/project.xml
+++ b/jira/project.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-jira-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven JIRA Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.3-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.3</currentVersion>
   <description>This plugin downloads issues from Jira and creates a report.</description>
   <shortDescription>Download issues from Jira</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/reference/plugins/jira/</url>
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@
     <contributor>
       <name>Michael Franken</name>
       <email>mfranken@xebia.com</email>
-      <organization></organization>
+      <organization/>
     </contributor>
   </contributors>
   <dependencies>
@@ -115,5 +116,10 @@
       <name>1.2</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_JIRA_1_2</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.3</id>
+      <name>1.3</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_JIRA_1_3</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
 </project>
diff --git a/jira/xdocs/changes.xml b/jira/xdocs/changes.xml
index 8156919a..91fd82f9 100644
--- a/jira/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/jira/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 <!-- 
 /*
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <author email="brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.3-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+    <release version="1.3" date="2006-02-05">
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPJIRA-10">Jira plugin does not work with NTLM proxy.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MAVEN-1739">Upgrade to HttpClient 3.0.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPJIRA-17">Plugin uses deprecated API to retrieve JIRA issues. Now requires at least JIRA 3.3.</action>