Prepate for release 4.4.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f59cd21..2c356fe 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -488,22 +488,22 @@
     <commons.module.name>org.apache.commons.collections4</commons.module.name>
 
     <!-- Current 4.x release series -->
-    <commons.release.version>4.3</commons.release.version>
+    <commons.release.version>4.4</commons.release.version>
     <commons.release.desc>(Requires Java 8 or later)</commons.release.desc>
 
-    <!-- Previous 3.x release series -->
+    <!-- Previous 4.2 release on Java 7 -->
     <commons.release.2.version>4.2</commons.release.2.version>
     <commons.release.2.desc>(Requires Java 7 or later)</commons.release.2.desc>
     <!-- Override generated name -->
     <commons.release.2.name>commons-collections4-${commons.release.2.version}</commons.release.2.name>
 
-    <!-- Previous 3.x release series -->
+    <!-- Previous 4.1 release on Java 6-->
     <commons.release.3.version>4.1</commons.release.3.version>
     <commons.release.3.desc>(Requires Java 6 or later)</commons.release.3.desc>
     <!-- Override generated name -->
     <commons.release.3.name>commons-collections4-${commons.release.3.version}</commons.release.3.name>
 
-    <!-- Previous 3.x release series -->
+    <!-- Previous 3.x release on Java 1.3 -->
     <commons.release.4.version>3.2.2</commons.release.4.version>
     <commons.release.4.desc>(Requires Java 1.3 or later)</commons.release.4.desc>
     <!-- Override generated name -->
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
     <commons.jira.id>COLLECTIONS</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12310465</commons.jira.pid>
     <!-- The RC version used in the staging repository URL. -->
-    <commons.rc.version>RC2</commons.rc.version>
+    <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <checkstyle.version>3.0.0</checkstyle.version>
 
     <commons.site.path>collections</commons.site.path>
@@ -524,10 +524,10 @@
     <commons.jacoco.version>0.8.4</commons.jacoco.version>
     
     <!--Commons Release Plugin -->
-    <commons.bc.version>4.2</commons.bc.version>
+    <commons.bc.version>4.3</commons.bc.version>
     <commons.release.isDistModule>true</commons.release.isDistModule>
-    <commons.releaseManagerName>Maxim Solodovnik</commons.releaseManagerName>
-    <commons.releaseManagerKey>C467526E</commons.releaseManagerKey>
+    <commons.releaseManagerName>Gary Gregory</commons.releaseManagerName>    
+    <commons.releaseManagerKey>86fdc7e2a11262cb</commons.releaseManagerKey>
     
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 383a8b8..157d6f1 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <title>Apache Commons Collections Release Notes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-  <release version="4.4" date="2019-MM-DD" description="Maintenance release.">
+  <release version="4.4" date="2019-07-05" description="Maintenance release.">
     <action issue="COLLECTIONS-710" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Yu Shi, Gary Gregory">
       NullPointerExceptions in CompositeCollection, CompositeSet, and CompositeMap.
     </action>