diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b98cb2ba..40129d85 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   <groupId>com.samskivert</groupId>
   <artifactId>samskivert</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>1.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.8.3</version>
 
   <name>samskivert</name>
   <description>A collection of Java utilities.</description>