diff --git a/dashboard/project.xml b/dashboard/project.xml
index 8f7510a9..b352bce4 100644
--- a/dashboard/project.xml
+++ b/dashboard/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-dashboard-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Dashboard Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.8</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.9-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Generate a dashboard containing global statistics about other maven reports</description>
   <shortDescription>Generate a statistic dashboard</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/dashboard/</url>
diff --git a/dashboard/src/plugin-resources/aggregators/junitpassrate.jelly b/dashboard/src/plugin-resources/aggregators/junitpassrate.jelly
index d7524acc..091235d3 100644
--- a/dashboard/src/plugin-resources/aggregators/junitpassrate.jelly
+++ b/dashboard/src/plugin-resources/aggregators/junitpassrate.jelly
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
   <u:file var="artifactAsFile" name="${maven.dashboard.aggregator.junittests.artifact}"/>
   <j:choose>
     <j:when test="${artifactAsFile.exists()}">
+      <x:parse var="doc" xml="${artifactAsFile}"/>
+      <x:set var="nbTests" select="sum($doc/testsuites/testsuite/@tests)"/>
       <j:choose>
-        <x:set var="nbTests" select="sum($doc/testsuites/testsuite/@tests)"/>
         <j:when test="${nbTests != 0}">
-          <x:parse var="doc" xml="${artifactAsFile}"/>
           <x:expr select="floor(100 - 100 * (sum($doc/testsuites/testsuite/@failures)  + sum($doc/testsuites/testsuite/@errors)) div sum($doc/testsuites/testsuite/@tests))"/>
         	%
         </j:when>
diff --git a/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml b/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml
index 50870427..8b39b1f9 100644
--- a/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.9-SNAPSHOT" date="in svn">
+      <action dev="vmassol" type="fix" issue="MPDASHBOARD-26" due-to="Wim Deblauwe">
+        The JUnit pass rate aggregator was no longer showing values in the dashboard.
+      </action>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.8" date="2005-05-19">
       <action dev="vmassol" type="add" issue="MPDASHBOARD-22" due-to="Morten Kristiansen">Added aggregator totals to the HTML report.</action>
       <action dev="vmassol" type="update">Default values for
