diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e25e36dbd0..ee3555e50e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   <groupId>org.apache.bcel</groupId>
   <artifactId>bcel</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>6.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>6.8.1</version>
   <name>Apache Commons BCEL</name>
   <description>Apache Commons Bytecode Engineering Library</description>