diff --git a/scm/project.xml b/scm/project.xml
index 51055bf1..e04b5362 100644
--- a/scm/project.xml
+++ b/scm/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-scm-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Source Control Management Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.6</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.7-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>A plugin for SCM tasks.</description>
   <shortDescription>SCM Plugin for Maven.</shortDescription>
   <versions>
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0</version>
+      <version>1.2</version>
       <properties>
         <comment>This library is already loaded by maven's core. Be careful to use the same version number as in the core.</comment>
       </properties>
diff --git a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
index 1d0b2a5f..66601ac2 100644
--- a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
     <author email="brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.7" date="In SVN">
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Upgrade to commons-io 1.2.</action>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.6" date="2006-02-24">
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPRELEASE-12" due-to="Dennis Lundberg">The encoding of the project.xml file is not preserved after doing
         <code>release:transform</code>.
