diff --git a/artifact/project.xml b/artifact/project.xml
index e0d18de9..07aa1855 100644
--- a/artifact/project.xml
+++ b/artifact/project.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -17,13 +16,17 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
  -->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/3.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/3.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v3_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/3.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/3.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v3_0_0.xsd">
   <extend>../plugin-parent/project.xml</extend>
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-artifact-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Artifact Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.7</currentVersion>
-  <description>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment. *WARNING*: This version of the artifact-plugin requires Maven 1.1. People using Maven 1.0 should NOT use this version of the plugin.</description>
+  <currentVersion>1.7-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <description>
+    Tools to manage artifacts and deployment.
+    *WARNING*: This version of the artifact-plugin requires Maven 1.1. People using Maven 1.0 should NOT use this version of the plugin.
+  </description>
   <shortDescription>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/reference/plugins/artifact/</url>
   <issueTrackingUrl>http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPARTIFACT</issueTrackingUrl>
@@ -74,11 +77,6 @@
       <name>1.6</name>
       <tag>maven-artifact-plugin-1.6</tag>
     </version>
-    <version>
-      <id>1.7</id>
-      <name>1.7</name>
-      <tag>maven-artifact-plugin-1.7</tag>
-    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index 5b1ec190..0c5f4be1 100644
--- a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 <!-- 
 /*
@@ -24,21 +24,19 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.7" date="2005-12-11">
-      <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPARTIFACT-57" due-to="Neil Crow">New attribute
-        <code>artifactIdOverride</code>that allows to specify custom names for deployed/installed artifacts.
-      </action>
+    <release version="1.7-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPARTIFACT-57" due-to="Neil Crow">New attribute <code>artifactIdOverride</code> that allows to specify custom names for deployed/installed artifacts.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPARTIFACT-56">When deploying a snapshot, jar and pom have different timestamped version.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPARTIFACT-59">Make deploying a timestamped SNAPSHOT artifact configurable.</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 :
+      <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 : 
         <ul>
-          <li>commons-collections v3.1 -&gt; v3.0</li>
-          <li>commons-httpclient v2.0 -&gt; v2.0.2</li>
-          <li>commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -&gt; v1.0</li>
-          <li>commons-jexl v1.0-beta-1 -&gt; v1.0</li>
-          <li>commons-logging v1.0.3 -&gt; v1.0.4</li>
-          <li>commons-net v1.1.0 -&gt; v1.4.0</li>
-          <li>plexus-utils v1.0-alpha-3 -&gt; v1.0.3</li>
+          <li>commons-collections v3.1 -> v3.0</li>
+          <li>commons-httpclient v2.0 -> v2.0.2</li>
+          <li>commons-jelly v1.0-beta-4 -> v1.0</li>
+          <li>commons-jexl v1.0-beta-1 -> v1.0</li>
+          <li>commons-logging v1.0.3 -> v1.0.4</li>
+          <li>commons-net v1.1.0 -> v1.4.0</li>
+          <li>plexus-utils v1.0-alpha-3 -> v1.0.3</li>
         </ul>
       </action>
       <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPARTIFACT-58">Correct handling of directory without a leading /</action>
