diff --git a/hoodie-cli/pom.xml b/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
index adf058a7c..aba9dd661 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>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-client/pom.xml b/hoodie-client/pom.xml
index 47db9020a..eeafdf1e0 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>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-common/pom.xml b/hoodie-common/pom.xml
index 80aba0edb..5167e417b 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>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml b/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml
index a80d2196d..51d1e98df 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>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-hive/pom.xml b/hoodie-hive/pom.xml
index b30ab5a11..d1a6d872e 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>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml b/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml
index facb0057b..f55adf12b 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>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 509fdec43..4830091b2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    <version>0.2.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8</version>
     <description>Hoodie is a Apache Spark library that provides the ability to efficiently do incremental processing on datasets in HDFS</description>
     <url>https://github.com/uber/hoodie</url>
     <name>Hoodie</name>
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
         <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-0.2.8</tag>
     </scm>
 
     <mailingLists>