diff --git a/hoodie-cli/pom.xml b/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
index 515ea1d7f..91e99552b 100644
--- a/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-client/pom.xml b/hoodie-client/pom.xml
index b8a316db8..ee7a570ba 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-client/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-common/pom.xml b/hoodie-common/pom.xml
index df28b1100..72c27c03c 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-common/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml b/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml
index 3424009cc..3c7bba57e 100644
--- a/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-hive/pom.xml b/hoodie-hive/pom.xml
index e9cff4750..c4b9ebfb1 100644
--- a/hoodie-hive/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-hive/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-spark/pom.xml b/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
index 55d373d6d..856db0d4f 100644
--- a/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml b/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml
index de5018989..91bab7b10 100644
--- a/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/packaging/hoodie-hadoop-mr-bundle/pom.xml b/packaging/hoodie-hadoop-mr-bundle/pom.xml
index 9e20c1faf..32e88d0a7 100644
--- a/packaging/hoodie-hadoop-mr-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/packaging/hoodie-hadoop-mr-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
         </property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
-        <hiveJarSuffix></hiveJarSuffix>
+        <hiveJarSuffix />
       </properties>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/packaging/hoodie-hive-bundle/pom.xml b/packaging/hoodie-hive-bundle/pom.xml
index c55666d1f..09082f2c5 100644
--- a/packaging/hoodie-hive-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/packaging/hoodie-hive-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
         </property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
-        <hiveJarSuffix></hiveJarSuffix>
+        <hiveJarSuffix />
       </properties>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/packaging/hoodie-spark-bundle/pom.xml b/packaging/hoodie-spark-bundle/pom.xml
index 75bb572ac..c5e5d0407 100644
--- a/packaging/hoodie-spark-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/packaging/hoodie-spark-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
-    <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.4</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
         </property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
-        <hiveJarSuffix></hiveJarSuffix>
+        <hiveJarSuffix />
       </properties>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d77f8f23c..a36214628 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
   <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <version>0.4.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.4.4</version>
   <description>Hoodie is a Apache Spark library that provides the ability to efficiently do
     incremental processing on datasets in HDFS
   </description>
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:uber/hoodie.git</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:uber/hoodie.git</developerConnection>
     <url>git@github.com:uber/hoodie.git</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    <tag>hoodie-0.4.4</tag>
   </scm>
 
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