diff --git a/linkcheck/project.xml b/linkcheck/project.xml
index 3fdc82fb..a72fb221 100644
--- a/linkcheck/project.xml
+++ b/linkcheck/project.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -17,15 +18,13 @@
  */
  -->
 
-
 <project>
   <extend>../project.xml</extend>
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-linkcheck-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven LinkCheck Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.2-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
-  <description>Check xdoc links.
-    Requires Maven 1.0 RC2.</description>
+  <currentVersion>1.2</currentVersion>
+  <description>Check xdoc links. Requires Maven 1.0 RC2.</description>
   <shortDescription>Check xdoc links</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/linkcheck/</url>
   <siteDirectory>/www/maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/linkcheck/</siteDirectory>
@@ -173,4 +172,11 @@
       </properties>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+  <versions>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.2</id>
+      <name>1.2</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_LINKCHECK_1_2</tag>
+    </version>
+  </versions>
 </project>
diff --git a/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml b/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
index 0d085457..ff65bf95 100644
--- a/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -22,35 +23,19 @@
     <title>Changes</title>
     <author email="evenisse@ifrance.com">Emmanuel Venisse</author>
   </properties>
-
   <body>
-
-	<release version="1.2" date="In CVS">
-      <action dev="evenisse" type="fix" issue="MPLINKCHECK-7">
-        Fix HTML.
-      </action>          
+    <release version="1.2" date="2004-03-10">
+      <action dev="evenisse" type="fix" issue="MPLINKCHECK-7">Fix HTML.</action>
     </release>
-	<release version="1.1" date="2003-09-29">
+    <release version="1.1" date="2003-09-29">
       <action dev="dion" type="update">update to commons-jelly-20030902.160215</action>
       <action dev="dion" type="update">update to use maven.docs.*/maven.gen.docs</action>
-      <action dev="dion" type="update">
-        Upgrade to dom4j 1.4
-      </action>
-      <action dev="dion" type="update">
-        Upgrade to maven 1.0 beta 10
-      </action>
-      <action dev="dion" type="update">
-        Upgrade to log4j 1.2.8
-      </action>
-      <action dev="dion" type="update">
-        Upgrade to commons-logging 1.0.3
-      </action>
-      <action dev="dion" type="update">
-        update to commons-lang 1.0.1
-      </action>
-      <action dev="evenisse" type="fix">
-        Add xml declaration to generated report. Fixed for character encoding.
-      </action>          
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">Upgrade to dom4j 1.4</action>
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">Upgrade to maven 1.0 beta 10</action>
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">Upgrade to log4j 1.2.8</action>
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">Upgrade to commons-logging 1.0.3</action>
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">update to commons-lang 1.0.1</action>
+      <action dev="evenisse" type="fix">Add xml declaration to generated report. Fixed for character encoding.</action>
     </release>
   </body>
 </document>
