diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2de3163d..d78e8cef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>com.novartis.opensource</groupId>
 	<artifactId>YADA</artifactId>
-	<version>7.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>7.1.1</version>
 	<name>YADA</name>
 	<url>http://opensource.nibr.com/yada</url>
 	<description>YADA (Yet Another Data Abstraction) Thin Server Framework</description>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 	  <connection>scm:git:ssh:git@github.com:Novartis/YADA.git</connection>
 	  <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/Novartis/YADA.git</developerConnection>
 	  <url>scm:git:ssh://github.com/Novartis/YADA</url>
-	  <tag>HEAD</tag>
+	  <tag>7.1.1</tag>
   </scm>
 	<properties>
     <display.version>${project.version}</display.version>
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
 								     site gets deployed internally -->
 								<replaceregexp file="${stagingDirectory}/index.html">
 									<regexp pattern="(&lt;body\s.+&gt;)" />
-									<substitution expression="\1--- name: YADA abbreviation: YADA projectName: YADA launched: 2015-11-01 icon: images/blox250.png summary: A universal remote control for data. description: | Access any data, at any source, in any format, from any environment, using just a URL, with just one-time configuration.           Get data from multiple sources, in different formats, merge the results into one with uniform column names, on-the-fly, using one URL.           **YADA** exists to simplify data access and eliminate work.                  **YADA** is a lightweight framework for data retrieval, searching, storage, and manipulation.                  **YADA** is an instant web service for your data.                  **YADA** is a tool to enable efficient development of interfaces and data-processing pipelines.                  **YADA** is an implementation of [Thin Server Architecture](http://bit.ly/1dhuiRY).                  **YADA** is an acronym for &quot;Yet Another Data Abstraction.&quot;                     Its [raisons d'être](http://bit.ly/1SHuiAd) are to enable efficient, non-redundant development of data-dependent applications and utilities, data source querying, data analysis, processing pipelines, extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, etc.             **YADA** does all this while preserving total decoupling between data access and other aspects of application architecture such as user interface.     ---" />									
+									<substitution expression="\1--- name: YADA abbreviation: YADA projectName: YADA launched: 2015-11-01 icon: images/blox250.png summary: A universal remote control for data. description: | Access any data, at any source, in any format, from any environment, using just a URL, with just one-time configuration. Get data from multiple sources, in different formats, merge the results into one with uniform column names, on-the-fly, using one URL.           **YADA** exists to simplify data access and eliminate work.                  **YADA** is a lightweight framework for data retrieval, searching, storage, and manipulation.                  **YADA** is an instant web service for your data.                  **YADA** is a tool to enable efficient development of interfaces and data-processing pipelines.                  **YADA** is an implementation of [Thin Server Architecture](http://bit.ly/1dhuiRY).                  **YADA** is an acronym for &quot;Yet Another Data Abstraction.&quot;                     Its [raisons d'être](http://bit.ly/1SHuiAd) are to enable efficient, non-redundant development of data-dependent applications and utilities, data source querying, data analysis, processing pipelines, extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, etc.             **YADA** does all this while preserving total decoupling between data access and other aspects of application architecture such as user interface.     ---" />									
 								</replaceregexp>
 								
 								<!-- add link for github docs stage -->
diff --git a/yada-api/pom.xml b/yada-api/pom.xml
index 77c1ef78..568c1c8f 100644
--- a/yada-api/pom.xml
+++ b/yada-api/pom.xml
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.novartis.opensource</groupId>
     <artifactId>YADA</artifactId>
-    <version>7.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>7.1.1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.novartis.opensource</groupId>
   <artifactId>yada-api</artifactId>
-  <version>7.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>7.1.1</version>
   <name>yada-api</name>
   <url>http://opensource.nibr.com/yada/yada-api</url>
   <distributionManagement>
diff --git a/yada-war/pom.xml b/yada-war/pom.xml
index 698dfcda..c83dda1c 100644
--- a/yada-war/pom.xml
+++ b/yada-war/pom.xml
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.novartis.opensource</groupId>
     <artifactId>YADA</artifactId>
-    <version>7.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>7.1.1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.novartis.opensource</groupId>
   <artifactId>yada-war</artifactId>
-  <version>7.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>7.1.1</version>
   <name>yada-war</name>
   <url>http://opensource.nibr.com/yada/yada-war</url>
   <packaging>war</packaging>