diff --git a/announcement/project.xml b/announcement/project.xml
index 4344e496..59cc048e 100644
--- a/announcement/project.xml
+++ b/announcement/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-announcement-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Announcement Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.2-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.2</currentVersion>
   <description>The Announcement plugin generates release announcements. It uses the information found in both the POM and in the changes.xml file to generate the announcement text.</description>&gt;
   <shortDescription>Produce release announcement</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/announcement/</url>
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@
       <name>1.2</name>
       <tag>HEAD</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.2</id>
+      <name>1.2</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_ANNOUNCEMENT_1_2</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/announcement/xdocs/changes.xml b/announcement/xdocs/changes.xml
index c82dbf65..ab8be817 100644
--- a/announcement/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/announcement/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,18 +24,14 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.2-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
-      <action dev="vmassol" type="add">
-        Added new <code>announcement:generate-all</code> to generate 
-        announcement files for all releases.
+    <release version="1.2" date="2004-07-08">
+      <action dev="vmassol" type="add">Added new
+        <code>announcement:generate-all</code>to generate announcement files for all releases.
       </action>
-      <action dev="vmassol" type="update">
-        Generates the announcement file in <code>${maven.gen.docs}/announcements</code>
-        so that it is copied to the web site when this later is deployed.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="vmassol" type="update">
-        Default announcement file name now contains the version in its name.
+      <action dev="vmassol" type="update">Generates the announcement file in
+        <code>${maven.gen.docs}/announcements</code>so that it is copied to the web site when this later is deployed.
       </action>
+      <action dev="vmassol" type="update">Default announcement file name now contains the version in its name.</action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.1" date="2004-05-15">
       <action dev="brett" type="update">Detect whether the project is a plugin or not by the existence of plugin.jelly in the project directory, and change the wording accordingly.</action>