diff --git a/pmd/project.xml b/pmd/project.xml
index c25b689e..1d4f3fc3 100644
--- a/pmd/project.xml
+++ b/pmd/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-pmd-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven PMD Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.8</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.9-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>The Maven PMD plugin is a plugin that wraps the PMD framework (http://pmd.sourceforge.net). PMD is a source checking framework that works by scanning Java source code and looks for potential problems like: unused local variables, empty catch blocks, unused parameters, empty 'if' statements, etc.</description>
   <shortDescription>Maven Plugin for PMD</shortDescription>
   <versions>
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>pmd</groupId>
       <artifactId>pmd</artifactId>
-      <version>3.5</version>
+      <version>3.6</version>
       <url>http://pmd.sourceforge.net</url>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml b/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
index 6f0a831d..7b60c77b 100644
--- a/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.9" date="In SVN">
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MPPMD-26">Upgrade to pmd-3.6.</action>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.8" date="2006-03-27">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPPMD-19" due-to="Wim Deblauwe">New property "maven.pmd.targetjdk" to define the target JDK.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add">Add a link on each error to explain it.</action>
