diff --git a/ant/project.xml b/ant/project.xml
index 1acd966f..248633de 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-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8</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>
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@
       <name>1.7</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_ANT_1_7</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.8</id>
+      <name>1.8</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_ANT_1_8</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
index 4cc971b0..2da9b6b6 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-SNAPSHOT" date="In CVS">
+    <release version="1.8" date="2004-07-20">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPANT-9" due-to="Jan Nielsen">Add ant's setproxy tag.</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPANT-16" due-to="Brent Worden" due-to-email="brent@worden.org">Use relative paths in directory properties.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Compile tests and run them only if Junit is present in ANT (display a warning otherwise).</action>
