diff --git a/byte-buddy-agent/pom.xml b/byte-buddy-agent/pom.xml
index d6cc0c97d90..9c94efa7400 100644
--- a/byte-buddy-agent/pom.xml
+++ b/byte-buddy-agent/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>byte-buddy-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
-        <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.7-rc5</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>byte-buddy-agent</artifactId>
diff --git a/byte-buddy-android/pom.xml b/byte-buddy-android/pom.xml
index a74cf372beb..980fea4ac0c 100644
--- a/byte-buddy-android/pom.xml
+++ b/byte-buddy-android/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>byte-buddy-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
-        <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.7-rc5</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>byte-buddy-android</artifactId>
diff --git a/byte-buddy-benchmark/pom.xml b/byte-buddy-benchmark/pom.xml
index 7f44e9e0287..ff5261e116d 100644
--- a/byte-buddy-benchmark/pom.xml
+++ b/byte-buddy-benchmark/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>byte-buddy-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
-        <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.7-rc5</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>byte-buddy-benchmark</artifactId>
diff --git a/byte-buddy-dep/pom.xml b/byte-buddy-dep/pom.xml
index 48f0cc4c773..9eebd7c85c8 100644
--- a/byte-buddy-dep/pom.xml
+++ b/byte-buddy-dep/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
         <artifactId>byte-buddy-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.7-rc5</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>byte-buddy-dep</artifactId>
diff --git a/byte-buddy/pom.xml b/byte-buddy/pom.xml
index 3c81b2318c8..577a4b907b9 100644
--- a/byte-buddy/pom.xml
+++ b/byte-buddy/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 <?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>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
         <artifactId>byte-buddy-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.7-rc5</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
@@ -170,8 +169,7 @@
                                 </goals>
                                 <configuration>
                                     <target>
-                                        <copy file="${project.basedir}/../byte-buddy-dep/target/byte-buddy-dep-${project.version}-javadoc.jar"
-                                              tofile="${project.build.directory}/byte-buddy-${project.version}-javadoc.jar"/>
+                                        <copy file="${project.basedir}/../byte-buddy-dep/target/byte-buddy-dep-${project.version}-javadoc.jar" tofile="${project.build.directory}/byte-buddy-${project.version}-javadoc.jar" />
                                     </target>
                                 </configuration>
                             </execution>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 11234d30b60..ff9b44e3c78 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
     <artifactId>byte-buddy-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.7-rc5</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
     <inceptionYear>2014</inceptionYear>
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
         <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:raphw/byte-buddy.git</connection>
         <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:raphw/byte-buddy.git</developerConnection>
         <url>git@github.com:raphw/byte-buddy.git</url>
-        <tag>HEAD</tag>
+        <tag>byte-buddy-0.7-rc5</tag>
     </scm>
 
     <dependencyManagement>