diff --git a/xdoc/project.xml b/xdoc/project.xml
index e8eaea37..88067423 100644
--- a/xdoc/project.xml
+++ b/xdoc/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-xdoc-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven XDoc Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.8-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8</currentVersion>
   <description>Convert xdocs into HTML. Requires Maven 1.0 RC2.</description>
   <shortDescription>Convert xdocs into HTML</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/xdoc/</url>
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@
       <name>1.7.2</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_XDOC_1_7_2</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.8</id>
+      <name>1.8</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_XDOC_1_8</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
index 7869dbe8..f94b8485 100644
--- a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+    <release version="1.8" date="2004-07-10">
       <action dev="brett" type="add">Add an externalLink attribute to a report to use if link is not present</action>
-      <action dev="vmassol" type="add">
-        Added a link to the release notes in the download report. Note that this
-        link is only created if the project has a <code>xdocs/changes.xml</code> 
-        file.
+      <action dev="vmassol" type="add">Added a link to the release notes in the download report. Note that this link is only created if the project has a
+        <code>xdocs/changes.xml</code>file.
       </action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="add" issue="MPXDOC-112">Add instructions to checkout with maven to cvs-usage page</action>
     </release>
