diff --git a/scm/project.xml b/scm/project.xml
index 5b267786..6a85ef83 100644
--- a/scm/project.xml
+++ b/scm/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-scm-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Source Control Management Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.7-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.6.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>A plugin for SCM tasks.</description>
   <shortDescription>SCM Plugin for Maven.</shortDescription>
   <versions>
diff --git a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
index f2d2cf5c..44d3ac25 100644
--- a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <author email="brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.7-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
+    <release version="1.6.1-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPSCM-86">scm:prepare-release does not commit modified changes.xml.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="update">Update dom4j and jelly dependencies to match the ones in maven 1.1 core.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Update dependencies to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-jelly-tags-interaction v1.0 to v1.1, jaxen v1.0-FCS-full to 1.1-beta-9. Add the dependency to jline for commons-jelly-tags-interaction v1.1.</action>
