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diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml
index e1a9be3..7170a8d 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
     <artifactId>hyracks</artifactId>
-    <version>0.2.18-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.3.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <licenses>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/pom.xml
index 41d2410..de2324d 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hyracks</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
-    <version>0.2.18-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.3.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml
index b45cf8c..fd7f11f2 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
     <artifactId>apache-hyracks</artifactId>
-    <version>0.2.18-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.3.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
index f01fa5f..66cbbf2 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
   <artifactId>apache-hyracks</artifactId>
-  <version>0.2.18-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.3.0</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <name>hyracks-ecosystem-full-stack</name>
   <url>https://asterixdb.apache.org/</url>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/apache/asterixdb</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu:29418/asterixdb</developerConnection>
     <url>https://github.com/apache/asterixdb</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    <tag>apache-hyracks-0.3.0-rc2</tag>
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
                     </goals>
                   </pluginExecutionFilter>
                   <action>
-                    <ignore></ignore>
+                    <ignore />
                   </action>
                 </pluginExecution>
               </pluginExecutions>