diff --git a/eclipse/project.xml b/eclipse/project.xml
index d65c4e4a..d99d1c3b 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</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.9-SNAPSHOT</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 374e71e7..96bd9048 100644
--- a/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
     <author email="dion@multitask.com.au">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.9" date="in cvs">
+    </release>
     <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>        
