diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 924571e..fa8f988 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Changes from Ant 1.9.2 TO current
+Changes from Ant 1.9.2 TO Ant 1.9.3
 ===================================
 
 Changes that could break older environments:
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
    interfere with each other.
    Bugzilla Report 54393.
 
- * <mail>'s mailport still didn't work proprly when using smtps.
+ * <mail>'s mailport still didn't work properly when using smtps.
    Bugzilla Report 49267.
 
  * using attributes belonging to the if and unless namespaces
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index c1e58f1..6ef97ff 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   <property name="name" value="ant"/>
   <!-- this is the groupId of ant in the Maven repository -->
   <property name="groupid" value="org/apache/ant"/>
-  <property name="project.version" value="1.9.3alpha"/>
+  <property name="project.version" value="1.9.3"/>
   <!-- pom.version is used when doing a distribution and must match with what is checked in under src/etc/poms -->
   <property name="pom.version" value="1.9.3-SNAPSHOT"/>
   <property name="manifest-version" value="1.9.3"/>