diff --git a/artifact/project.xml b/artifact/project.xml
index 13e0a516..ac4ac1c4 100644
--- a/artifact/project.xml
+++ b/artifact/project.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <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>1.5-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.5-rc1</currentVersion>
   <description>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment.</description>
   <shortDescription>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/artifact/</url>
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
       <name>1.4.1</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_ARTIFACT_1_4_1</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.5-rc1</id>
+      <name>1.5-rc1</name>
+      <tag>maven-artifact-plugin-1.5-rc1</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index 9f707142..7ba838be 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="1.5-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+    <release version="1.5-rc1" date="2005-06-02">
       <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPARTIFACT-49">Wholly resolve the POM before deploying</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPARTIFACT-19">Deploy anything with SNAPSHOT in the version as a snapshot</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="update">Deprecated install-snapshot and deploy-snapshot goals</action>