diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 7bf823d..2c6898c 100755
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     FALCON-1401 MetadataMappingService fails to add an edge for a process instance(Pallavi Rao) 
 
   NEW FEATURES
+    FALCON-570 Falcon needs to publish maven artifacts (Shwetha GS)
+
     FALCON-1485 Add documentation for data transfer details of filesystem replication(Peeyush Bishnoi via Sowmya Ramesh)
 
     FALCON-1315 Update falcon ui for HiveDR, secure clusters and bug fixes(Armando Reyna/Venkat Ranganathan via Sowmya Ramesh)
diff --git a/checkstyle/pom.xml b/checkstyle/pom.xml
index df2c50c..01096af 100644
--- a/checkstyle/pom.xml
+++ b/checkstyle/pom.xml
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>org.apache.falcon</groupId>
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.apache.falcon</groupId>
+        <artifactId>falcon-main</artifactId>
+        <version>0.8</version>
+    </parent>
     <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-    <version>0.8</version>
     <name>Checkstyle</name>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 028112e..b35bace 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
-        <version>13</version>
+        <version>17</version>
     </parent>
 
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -87,14 +87,6 @@
         <url>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/falcon.git</url>
     </scm>
 
-    <distributionManagement>
-        <repository>
-            <id>internal.repo</id>
-            <name>Internal Repository</name>
-            <url>${internal.maven.repo}</url>
-        </repository>
-    </distributionManagement>
-
     <properties>
         <!-- platform encoding override -->
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -1196,7 +1188,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.2</version>
+                    <version>3.4</version>
                 </plugin>
 
                 <plugin>