diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7974cd5..83566b5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,14 +15,12 @@
 limitations under the License.
 -->
 
-# Fluo YARN launcher
+# Apache Fluo YARN launcher
 
 [![Build Status][ti]][tl] [![Apache License][li]][ll]
 
 A tool for running Apache Fluo applications in Hadoop YARN.
 
-**This is currently a work in progress that depends on unreleased features of Fluo and will not be ready for use until after Fluo 1.2.0 is released.**  Sometime after Fluo 1.2.0 is released this project will make its first release.
-
 ## Getting Started
 
 * [Documentation][docs] for running a Fluo application in YARN
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ec732cb..0547b6f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     <module>core</module>
   </modules>
   <properties>
-    <accumulo.version>1.6.5</accumulo.version>
+    <accumulo.version>1.7.3</accumulo.version>
     <findbugs.maxRank>9</findbugs.maxRank>
     <hadoop.version>2.6.3</hadoop.version>
     <logback.version>1.1.3</logback.version>
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
           <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
           <configuration>
             <!-- must put this here, due to MRELEASE-963 -->
-            <tagNameFormat>rel/fluo-@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
+            <tagNameFormat>rel/fluo-yarn-@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@
               <failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
               <ignoredDependencies>
                 <ignoredDependency>log4j:log4j:jar:*</ignoredDependency>
-                <ignoredDependency>org.apache.fluo:fluo-core:jar:${fluo.version}</ignoredDependency>
                 <ignoredDependency>org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:jar:${hadoop.version}</ignoredDependency>
                 <ignoredDependency>org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client:jar:${hadoop.version}</ignoredDependency>
                 <ignoredDependency>org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-core:jar:${hadoop.version}</ignoredDependency>