diff --git a/artifact/project.xml b/artifact/project.xml
index 5b52082e..b851c8e7 100644
--- a/artifact/project.xml
+++ b/artifact/project.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
   <id>maven-artifact-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Artifact Plugin</name>
   <!-- WARNING: some dependency checks will break if we get to 1.10, need to go to 2.0 from there -->
-  <currentVersion>1.3-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+
+  <currentVersion>1.3</currentVersion>
   <description/>
   <shortDescription>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/artifact/</url>
@@ -46,6 +47,11 @@
       <name>1.2</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_ARTIFACT_1_2</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.3</id>
+      <name>1.3</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_ARTIFACT_1_3</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers/>
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index a50d9d81..1a63c9b9 100644
--- a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.3" date="In CVS">
+    <release version="1.3" date="2004-06-25">
       <action dev="brett" type="add" issue="MPARTIFACT-8" due-to="Matt Smith">Allow non-passive FTP</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="add" issue="MPARTIFACT-20">Fix copy-deps when list is empty</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="add">Accept empty passphrase to ssh based deployers</action>