0.9.3-rc1 release commit
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c8687c6..6a21b03 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.9.3
+## 0.9.3-rc1
  * STORM-519: add tuple as an input param to HBaseValueMapper 
  * STORM-488: Exit with 254 error code if storm CLI is run with unknown command
  * STORM-506: Do not count bolt acks & fails in total stats
diff --git a/examples/storm-starter/pom.xml b/examples/storm-starter/pom.xml
index a31304a..27ea5b7 100644
--- a/examples/storm-starter/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/storm-starter/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <parent>
       <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
       <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-      <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
       <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/storm-hbase/pom.xml b/external/storm-hbase/pom.xml
index a492164..da52429 100644
--- a/external/storm-hbase/pom.xml
+++ b/external/storm-hbase/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/storm-hdfs/pom.xml b/external/storm-hdfs/pom.xml
index 27aa5fb..a2137b5 100644
--- a/external/storm-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/external/storm-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/external/storm-kafka/pom.xml b/external/storm-kafka/pom.xml
index 05bb117..65a207e 100644
--- a/external/storm-kafka/pom.xml
+++ b/external/storm-kafka/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 83620ce..e3e4b7f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
     <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>Storm</name>
     <description>Distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation</description>
diff --git a/storm-buildtools/maven-shade-clojure-transformer/pom.xml b/storm-buildtools/maven-shade-clojure-transformer/pom.xml
index d789f11..beea82f 100644
--- a/storm-buildtools/maven-shade-clojure-transformer/pom.xml
+++ b/storm-buildtools/maven-shade-clojure-transformer/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/storm-core/pom.xml b/storm-core/pom.xml
index 29338f0..1b12b7d 100644
--- a/storm-core/pom.xml
+++ b/storm-core/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
     </parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
     <artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/storm-dist/binary/pom.xml b/storm-dist/binary/pom.xml
index 5d2ecf3..31c0bf5 100644
--- a/storm-dist/binary/pom.xml
+++ b/storm-dist/binary/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
diff --git a/storm-dist/source/pom.xml b/storm-dist/source/pom.xml
index 5284b3b..deb7bdf 100644
--- a/storm-dist/source/pom.xml
+++ b/storm-dist/source/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-        <version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.3-rc1</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>