diff --git a/pmd/project.xml b/pmd/project.xml
index 1d4f3fc3..ef688355 100644
--- a/pmd/project.xml
+++ b/pmd/project.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-pmd-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven PMD Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.9-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.9</currentVersion>
   <description>The Maven PMD plugin is a plugin that wraps the PMD framework (http://pmd.sourceforge.net). PMD is a source checking framework that works by scanning Java source code and looks for potential problems like: unused local variables, empty catch blocks, unused parameters, empty 'if' statements, etc.</description>
   <shortDescription>Maven Plugin for PMD</shortDescription>
   <versions>
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@
       <name>1.8</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_PMD_1_8</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.9</id>
+      <name>1.9</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_PMD_1_9</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml b/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
index 7b60c77b..ebd3a62b 100644
--- a/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.9" date="In SVN">
+    <release version="1.9" date="2006-04-27">
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MPPMD-26">Upgrade to pmd-3.6.</action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.8" date="2006-03-27">
