diff --git a/Mustang-CLI/pom.xml b/Mustang-CLI/pom.xml
index 8193581c..4d60dc86 100644
--- a/Mustang-CLI/pom.xml
+++ b/Mustang-CLI/pom.xml
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 <parent>
     <groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
     <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
 </parent>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.zugferd</groupId>
    <artifactId>Mustang-CLI</artifactId>
    <name>Mustang commandline tool</name>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
-   <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+   <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
    <repositories>
       <repository>
          <!-- for jargs -->
diff --git a/library/pom.xml b/library/pom.xml
index e4abd6ff..0c082a08 100644
--- a/library/pom.xml
+++ b/library/pom.xml
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 <parent>
     <groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
     <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
 </parent>
 
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
 	<artifactId>library</artifactId>
-	<version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<name>Library to write and read FacturX and ZUGFeRD e-invoices.  </name>
 	<description>The Mustang project is a java library to read and write ZUGFeRD meta data inside your invoice PDFs. To write files, a provided PDF/A will be combined with generated or provided XML.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index badc1aec..c98e7a9f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
     <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>Mustang</name>
 
diff --git a/validator/pom.xml b/validator/pom.xml
index 025c17ed..2746d7c1 100644
--- a/validator/pom.xml
+++ b/validator/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
         <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <name>Library to validate Factur-X/ZUGFeRD 1.0 and 2.1 as well as XRechnung e-invoices.</name>
 
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <!-- for jargs -->
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mustangproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>library</artifactId>
-            <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>1.9.0-alpha1</version>
             <!-- prototypes of new mustangproject versions can be installed by referring to them and installed to the local repo from a jar file with
            mvn install:install-file -Dfile=mustang-1.5.4-SNAPSHOT.jar -DgroupId=org.mustangproject.ZUGFeRD -DartifactId=mustang -Dversion=1.5.4 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
            -->