diff --git a/artifact/project.xml b/artifact/project.xml
index 445b48a2..0e2666bd 100644
--- a/artifact/project.xml
+++ b/artifact/project.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <name>Maven Artifact Plugin</name>
   <!-- WARNING: some dependency checks will break if we get to 1.10, need to go to 2.0 from there -->
 
-  <currentVersion>1.5.1</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.5.2-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment.</description>
   <shortDescription>Tools to manage artifacts and deployment</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/artifact/</url>
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
       <artifactId>wagon-ssh-external</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0-alpha-3</version>
+      <version>1.0-alpha-4-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
diff --git a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
index 17589a5e..ba7faec6 100644
--- a/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/artifact/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.5.2-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPARTIFACT-52">Upgrade Wagon SSH External provider to correct issues</action>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.5.1" date="2005-06-05">
       <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPARTIFACT-49">Wholly resolve the POM before deploying</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="update" issue="MPARTIFACT-19">Deploy anything with SNAPSHOT in the version as a snapshot</action>
