diff --git a/ear/project.xml b/ear/project.xml
index ee995fae..77be403f 100644
--- a/ear/project.xml
+++ b/ear/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-ear-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven EAR Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.9-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.9</currentVersion>
   <description>Ear Plugin for Maven</description>
   <shortDescription>Ear Plugin for Maven</shortDescription>
   <versions>
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@
       <name>1.8</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_EAR_1_8</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.9</id>
+      <name>1.9</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_EAR_1_9</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <branches/>
   <developers>
diff --git a/ear/xdocs/changes.xml b/ear/xdocs/changes.xml
index f78b92c4..4cebf4a9 100644
--- a/ear/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/ear/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 
 <!-- 
 /*
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
     <author email="nathan.coast@blueyonder.co.uk">Nathan Coast</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.9-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
+    <release version="1.9" date="2006-04-27">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPEAR-17">Added support to set the description and the security roles in the generated application.xml.</action>
-    </release>    
+    </release>
     <release version="1.8" date="2006-03-08">
       <action dev="snicoll" type="fix" issue="MPEAR-33">Added support of JbossNet archive in application.xml generation.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MAVEN-1712">Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated :
