Next release will be 1.9.0
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a7c311c..1ed3aa8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 

   <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>

   <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>

-  <version>1.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

+  <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

   <name>Apache Commons Validator</name>

   <description>

     Apache Commons Validator provides the building blocks for both client side validation and server side data validation.

@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
     <commons.componentid>validator</commons.componentid>

     <commons.module.name>org.apache.commons.validator</commons.module.name>

     <!-- Re-generate the download page using: mvn commons:download-page -->

-    <commons.release.version>1.8.0</commons.release.version>

-    <commons.release.next>1.8.1</commons.release.next>

+    <commons.release.version>1.9.0</commons.release.version>

+    <commons.release.next>1.9.1</commons.release.next>

     <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>

     <commons.release.desc>(requires JDK ${maven.compiler.target})</commons.release.desc>

-    <commons.bc.version>1.7</commons.bc.version>

+    <commons.bc.version>1.8.0</commons.bc.version>

     <commons.jira.id>VALIDATOR</commons.jira.id>

     <commons.jira.pid>12310494</commons.jira.pid>

     <commons.encoding>UTF-8</commons.encoding>