diff --git a/ant/project.xml b/ant/project.xml
index cf0c6974..0fe126f3 100644
--- a/ant/project.xml
+++ b/ant/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-ant-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Ant Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.8.1-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8.1</currentVersion>
   <description>Generates ant build files from a maven project, so that plain ant users can build your project</description>
   <shortDescription>Generate Ant build file</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ant/</url>
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@
       <name>1.8</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_ANT_1_8</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.8.1</id>
+      <name>1.8.1</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_ANT_1_8_1</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
@@ -73,7 +78,7 @@
       <organization/>
       <roles>
         <role>Developer</role>
-        <role>Release Manager</role>        
+        <role>Release Manager</role>
       </roles>
       <timezone>+1</timezone>
     </developer>
diff --git a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
index 532a508e..8736e670 100644
--- a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <author email="dion@multitask.com.au">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.8.1-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+    <release version="1.8.1" date="2004-08-20">
       <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPANT-16">Use relative paths in test resources filesets.</action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.8" date="2004-07-20">
