diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 35c1e06..1d65c75 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
     <commons.site.path>text</commons.site.path>
     <commons.scmPubUrl>https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/production/commons/content/proper/commons-text</commons.scmPubUrl>
     <commons.scmPubCheckoutDirectory>site-content</commons.scmPubCheckoutDirectory>
+    <commons.distSvnStagingUrl>scm:svn:https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/text/</commons.distSvnStagingUrl>
+    <commons.release.isDistModule>true</commons.release.isDistModule>
 
     <checkstyle.plugin.version>3.0.0</checkstyle.plugin.version>
     <checkstyle.version>6.19</checkstyle.version>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 434d428..996bcc6 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
 
-  <release version="1.3" date="2018-MM-DD" description="Release 1.3">
+  <release version="1.3" date="2018-03-16" description="Release 1.3">
     <action issue="TEXT-110" type="add" dev="pschumacher">Add Automatic-Module-Name MANIFEST entry for Java 9 compatibility</action>
     <action issue="TEXT-70" type="fix" dev="pschumacher">Build failure with java 9-ea+159</action>
     <action issue="TEXT-113" type="add" dev="ggregory">Add an interpolator string lookup: StringLookupFactory#interpolatorStringLookup()</action>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml b/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml
index f55040b..13b4101 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 <table>
 <tr><th>Version</th><th>Release date</th><th>Required Java Version</th><th>Javadoc</th><th>Release notes</th></tr>
 <tr>
-  <td>1.3</td><td>03-16-2017</td><td>7.0</td><td><a href="javadocs/api-1.3/">api-1.3</a></td><td><a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.3.txt">release notes for 1.3</a></td>
+  <td>1.3</td><td>03-16-2018</td><td>7.0</td><td><a href="javadocs/api-1.3/">api-1.3</a></td><td><a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.3.txt">release notes for 1.3</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>1.2</td><td>12-12-2017</td><td>7.0</td><td><a href="javadocs/api-1.2/">api-1.2</a></td><td><a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.2.txt">release notes for 1.2</a></td>