diff --git a/cactus/project.xml b/cactus/project.xml
index 642cf67e..300f3f6b 100644
--- a/cactus/project.xml
+++ b/cactus/project.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-cactus-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Cactus Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>2.0</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>2.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Plugin for Cactus (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus) that allows to automatically start containers, run Cactus tests and stop the containers.</description>
   <shortDescription>Cactus plugin</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/cactus/</url>
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
       <name>2.0</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_CACTUS_2_0</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>2.1</id>
+      <name>2.1</name>
+      <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml b/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml
index dcb518ef..3ca7f819 100644
--- a/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 
   <body>
 
+    <release version="2.1" date="in CVS">
+    </release>
+
     <release version="2.0" date="2003-04-08">
       <action dev="vmassol" type="update">
         Complete rework of the plugin to use the Cactus/Ant Integration
