diff --git a/scm/plugin.jelly b/scm/plugin.jelly
index f03f1a36..2fffd0d9 100644
--- a/scm/plugin.jelly
+++ b/scm/plugin.jelly
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
       default="${tag_name}"
     />
     <log:info>Verifying valid tag name</log:info>
-    <ant:cvs command="tag ${tag_name} project.xml"
+    <ant:cvs command="tag -F ${tag_name} project.xml"
       noexec="true"
       quiet="${maven.scm.cvs.quiet}"
       cvsRsh="${maven.scm.cvs.rsh}"
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
     <j:if test="${changesExists}">
       <c:release-version version="${version_name}" />
     </j:if>
-    <log:info>Committing new POM</log:info>
+    <log:info>Committing new documents: ${documents}</log:info>
     <ant:cvs command="commit -m '[maven-scm-plugin] prepare release ${version_name}' ${documents}"
       quiet="${maven.scm.cvs.quiet}"
       cvsRsh="${maven.scm.cvs.rsh}"
diff --git a/scm/project.xml b/scm/project.xml
index 8f97143e..cb8217b2 100644
--- a/scm/project.xml
+++ b/scm/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <extend>../project.xml</extend>
   <id>maven-scm-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Source Control Management Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.2</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.3-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>A plugin for SCM tasks, currently CVS.</description>
   <shortDescription>SCM Plugin for Maven. Requires Maven 1.0 RC2.</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/scm/</url>
diff --git a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
index 95f54b44..db3dc03e 100644
--- a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
     <author email="brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.3-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+    </release>
+
     <release version="1.2" date="2004-03-07">
       <action dev="brett" type="fix">Don't use -C - Mac OS X doesn't recognise it</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPSCM-3">Catch exceptions to make sure files don't get moved permanently.</action>
