diff --git a/archetype/pom.xml b/archetype/pom.xml
index 8f05b5759..906d5a529 100644
--- a/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ under the License.
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
     <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>stormcrawler-archetype</artifactId>
   <name>stormcrawler-archetype</name>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index e269b5ea1..c9f7a80ab 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>stormcrawler-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/external/aws/pom.xml b/external/aws/pom.xml
index e865bd426..f36727671 100644
--- a/external/aws/pom.xml
+++ b/external/aws/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/langid/pom.xml b/external/langid/pom.xml
index 402a9e373..0e05935ed 100644
--- a/external/langid/pom.xml
+++ b/external/langid/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml b/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
index ffc5100bc..8703ef468 100644
--- a/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch/archetype/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
     <artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0</version>
     <relativePath>../../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/opensearch/pom.xml b/external/opensearch/pom.xml
index 9d2cc2368..64fe05726 100644
--- a/external/opensearch/pom.xml
+++ b/external/opensearch/pom.xml
@@ -19,15 +19,13 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations
 under the License.
 -->
 
-<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>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/pom.xml b/external/pom.xml
index 8bea4c046..6782509ca 100644
--- a/external/pom.xml
+++ b/external/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/solr/pom.xml b/external/solr/pom.xml
index 6ac581d1b..18efd231f 100644
--- a/external/solr/pom.xml
+++ b/external/solr/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/sql/pom.xml b/external/sql/pom.xml
index a1004b54c..5fffb58f0 100644
--- a/external/sql/pom.xml
+++ b/external/sql/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/tika/pom.xml b/external/tika/pom.xml
index 984e1e919..79d81c224 100644
--- a/external/tika/pom.xml
+++ b/external/tika/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml b/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
index aa88736be..db9d98b62 100644
--- a/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
+++ b/external/urlfrontier/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/external/warc/pom.xml b/external/warc/pom.xml
index 3022ece49..ff3aa575b 100644
--- a/external/warc/pom.xml
+++ b/external/warc/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ under the License.
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>stormcrawler-external</artifactId>
-		<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>3.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8dc14cef0..a78d3bf27 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ under the License.
 
 	<groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
 	<artifactId>stormcrawler</artifactId>
-	<version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>3.0</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 
 	<name>stormcrawler</name>
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ under the License.
 		<developerConnection>
 			scm:git:git@github.com:apache/incubator-stormcrawler.git</developerConnection>
 		<url>https://github.com/apache/incubator-stormcrawler</url>
-		<tag>HEAD</tag>
+		<tag>stormcrawler-3.0</tag>
 	</scm>
 
 	<issueManagement>