diff --git a/hoodie-cli/pom.xml b/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
index 04c5d1b50..847c5267a 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>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.9</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-client/pom.xml b/hoodie-client/pom.xml
index a0e73570f..e2fa80114 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>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.9</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-common/pom.xml b/hoodie-common/pom.xml
index 985322922..cf00a4e0d 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>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.9</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml b/hoodie-hadoop-mr/pom.xml
index b02d6406d..4bca58f78 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>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.9</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-hive/pom.xml b/hoodie-hive/pom.xml
index 91ba96786..c94218174 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>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.9</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml b/hoodie-utilities/pom.xml
index 4d16a64b4..59fc65e0b 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>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.9</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a447aa37f..0eae9697b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>com.uber.hoodie</groupId>
     <artifactId>hoodie</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    <version>0.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.9</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-0.2.9</tag>
     </scm>
 
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