diff --git a/scm/project.xml b/scm/project.xml
index 35ce52f6..23d2aa43 100644
--- a/scm/project.xml
+++ b/scm/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-scm-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Source Control Management Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.6.1</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.6.2-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>A plugin for SCM tasks.</description>
   <shortDescription>SCM Plugin for Maven.</shortDescription>
   <versions>
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@
         <comment>This library is already loaded by maven's core. Be careful to use the same version number as in the core.</comment>
       </properties>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>regexp</groupId>
+      <artifactId>regexp</artifactId>
+      <version>1.3</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-scm-manager-plexus</artifactId>
diff --git a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
index f939c516..8b9ab3a3 100644
--- a/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/scm/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
     <author email="brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</author> 
   </properties>  
   <body> 
+    <release version="1.6.2-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN"> 
+      <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPSCM-97">scm:update fails with NoClassDefFound, add missing jakarta-regexp dependency.</action>  
+    </release> 
     <release version="1.6.1" date="2007-03-28"> 
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPSCM-63">The prepare-release goal should fail if project.xml can't be edited (e.g. read only).</action>  
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPSCM-89">SCM Parse Connection output is wrong / misleading.</action>  
