diff --git a/httpasyncclient-cache/pom.xml b/httpasyncclient-cache/pom.xml
index 4e4a158..55fb6df 100644
--- a/httpasyncclient-cache/pom.xml
+++ b/httpasyncclient-cache/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-asyncclient</artifactId>
-    <version>4.0-beta2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.0-beta2</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpasyncclient-cache</artifactId>
   <name>HttpAsyncClient Cache</name>
diff --git a/httpasyncclient-osgi/pom.xml b/httpasyncclient-osgi/pom.xml
index 0f908d8..d1c4a86 100644
--- a/httpasyncclient-osgi/pom.xml
+++ b/httpasyncclient-osgi/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-asyncclient</artifactId>
-    <version>4.0-beta2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.0-beta2</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpasyncclient-osgi</artifactId>
   <name>HttpAsyncClient OSGi bundle</name>
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
             org.apache.http.impl.conn;version=${httpclient.version},
             org.apache.http.impl.client;version=${httpclient.version}
             </Import-Package>
-            <Include-Resource></Include-Resource>
+            <Include-Resource />
             <!-- Stop the JAVA_1_n_HOME variables from being treated as headers by Bnd -->
             <_removeheaders>JAVA_1_3_HOME,JAVA_1_4_HOME</_removeheaders>
           </instructions>
diff --git a/httpasyncclient/pom.xml b/httpasyncclient/pom.xml
index 3a43f7a..6d7f146 100644
--- a/httpasyncclient/pom.xml
+++ b/httpasyncclient/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-asyncclient</artifactId>
-    <version>4.0-beta2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.0-beta2</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpasyncclient</artifactId>
   <name>HttpAsyncClient</name>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 702f5d1..46e4a3d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>httpcomponents-asyncclient</artifactId>
   <name>HttpComponents AsyncClient</name>
-  <version>4.0-beta2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>4.0-beta2</version>
   <description>Components to build asynchronous client side HTTP services</description>
   <url>http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-asyncclient</url>
   <inceptionYear>2010</inceptionYear>
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
   </issueManagement>
 
   <scm>
-    <connection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/trunk</connection>
-    <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/trunk</developerConnection>
-    <url>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/trunk</url>
+    <connection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/tags/4.0-beta2</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/tags/4.0-beta2</developerConnection>
+    <url>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/tags/4.0-beta2</url>
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>