diff --git a/pdf/project.xml b/pdf/project.xml
index bd4a1063..eb2a9906 100644
--- a/pdf/project.xml
+++ b/pdf/project.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@
   <extend>${basedir}/../plugin-parent/project.xml</extend>
   <artifactId>maven-pdf-plugin</artifactId>
   <name>Maven PDF Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>2.3-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>2.3</currentVersion>
   <description>PDF Documentation generator</description>
   <shortDescription>Generator of project documentation in PDF Format.</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/pdf/</url>
@@ -52,6 +53,11 @@
       <name>2.2.1</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_PDF_2_2_1</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>2.3</id>
+      <name>2.3</name>
+      <tag>maven-pdf-plugin-2.3</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml b/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml
index beb0a54c..a57e24a8 100644
--- a/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
     <author email="aheritier@apache.org">Arnaud Heritier</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="2.3" date="In SVN">
+    <release version="2.3" date="2005-06-16">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MPPDF-38">Use the ant task for the xsl transformation and remove xerces and xalan dependencies. People using java 5 will have to use this release with maven 1.1 or maven 1.0 with at the most the PDF plugin 2.2.X.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Use the ant task for the fop transformation and remove xalan dependency.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="fix" issue="MPPDF-36" due-to="Lukas Theussl">maven pdf fails with footer in navigation.xml.</action>
