diff --git a/archetype/pom.xml b/archetype/pom.xml
index 0c02f8407..b43e41736 100644
--- a/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
     <artifactId>storm-crawler</artifactId>
-    <version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.9</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>storm-crawler-archetype</artifactId>
   <name>storm-crawler-archetype</name>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 062fbf7af..9bea751ca 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>storm-crawler-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/external/aws/pom.xml b/external/aws/pom.xml
index 2ec58b576..a8d8b889a 100644
--- a/external/aws/pom.xml
+++ b/external/aws/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/elasticsearch/archetype/pom.xml b/external/elasticsearch/archetype/pom.xml
index 6dd506e86..1d485be58 100644
--- a/external/elasticsearch/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/external/elasticsearch/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
     <artifactId>storm-crawler</artifactId>
-    <version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.9</version>
     <relativePath>../../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/elasticsearch/pom.xml b/external/elasticsearch/pom.xml
index 985463802..9549b73b3 100644
--- a/external/elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/external/elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/langid/pom.xml b/external/langid/pom.xml
index 697b253a9..d638b158f 100644
--- a/external/langid/pom.xml
+++ b/external/langid/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml b/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
index ed882b8db..c1ff8b9d7 100644
--- a/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
     <artifactId>storm-crawler</artifactId>
-    <version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.9</version>
     <relativePath>../../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch/pom.xml b/external/opensearch/pom.xml
index 022500a8c..ae7f6af1f 100644
--- a/external/opensearch/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/pom.xml b/external/pom.xml
index 50516367a..970273f8a 100644
--- a/external/pom.xml
+++ b/external/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/solr/pom.xml b/external/solr/pom.xml
index 302aab5ec..e3ad4e364 100644
--- a/external/solr/pom.xml
+++ b/external/solr/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/sql/pom.xml b/external/sql/pom.xml
index 2559df460..743f2c6c5 100644
--- a/external/sql/pom.xml
+++ b/external/sql/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/tika/pom.xml b/external/tika/pom.xml
index fd7770334..fd658b421 100644
--- a/external/tika/pom.xml
+++ b/external/tika/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml b/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
index 6e52acdad..89ed72e01 100644
--- a/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
+++ b/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/warc/pom.xml b/external/warc/pom.xml
index f73a09045..747c1c204 100644
--- a/external/warc/pom.xml
+++ b/external/warc/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>storm-crawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.9</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8fba38843..64b7e61e5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
 	<groupId>com.digitalpebble.stormcrawler</groupId>
 	<artifactId>storm-crawler</artifactId>
-	<version>2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>2.9</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 
 	<name>storm-crawler</name>
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@
 		<developerConnection>
 			scm:git:git@github.com:DigitalPebble/storm-crawler.git</developerConnection>
 		<url>https://github.com/DigitalPebble/storm-crawler</url>
-		<tag>HEAD</tag>
+		<tag>2.9</tag>
 	</scm>
 
 	<issueManagement>