diff --git a/java/api-test/api-usage-example/pom.xml b/java/api-test/api-usage-example/pom.xml
index 59e7277cf391..4e9fb4f6f1de 100644
--- a/java/api-test/api-usage-example/pom.xml
+++ b/java/api-test/api-usage-example/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel.test</groupId>
         <artifactId>api-test</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/api-test/integration-tests/pom.xml b/java/api-test/integration-tests/pom.xml
index 2cd756b88e78..28fad8cb2973 100644
--- a/java/api-test/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/java/api-test/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel.test</groupId>
         <artifactId>api-test</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/api-test/pom.xml b/java/api-test/pom.xml
index 8606e560dfe5..674371cef440 100644
--- a/java/api-test/pom.xml
+++ b/java/api-test/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-ai-openai/pom.xml b/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-ai-openai/pom.xml
index 1e71d9b32cd5..9e4216ec45c6 100644
--- a/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-ai-openai/pom.xml
+++ b/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-ai-openai/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-azurecognitivesearch/pom.xml b/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-azurecognitivesearch/pom.xml
index 81d80c471e97..ba482efb5eb4 100644
--- a/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-azurecognitivesearch/pom.xml
+++ b/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-azurecognitivesearch/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-sqlite/pom.xml b/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-sqlite/pom.xml
index fc4a3b69486f..0c9e399c452b 100644
--- a/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-sqlite/pom.xml
+++ b/java/connectors/semantickernel-connectors-memory-sqlite/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/extensions/semantickernel-gpt3-tokenizer/pom.xml b/java/extensions/semantickernel-gpt3-tokenizer/pom.xml
index 9096ef7ebdb9..c8a983e4b11f 100644
--- a/java/extensions/semantickernel-gpt3-tokenizer/pom.xml
+++ b/java/extensions/semantickernel-gpt3-tokenizer/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/extensions/semantickernel-planners/pom.xml b/java/extensions/semantickernel-planners/pom.xml
index 4af582ea2169..f51c4b968369 100644
--- a/java/extensions/semantickernel-planners/pom.xml
+++ b/java/extensions/semantickernel-planners/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/plugins/semantickernel-plugin-core/pom.xml b/java/plugins/semantickernel-plugin-core/pom.xml
index 5fe138904e7c..672a3263dab3 100644
--- a/java/plugins/semantickernel-plugin-core/pom.xml
+++ b/java/plugins/semantickernel-plugin-core/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/pom.xml b/java/pom.xml
index f95ce8600b33..b27c5de3e543 100644
--- a/java/pom.xml
+++ b/java/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
     <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <url>https://www.github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel</url>
     <name>Semantic Kernel Parent</name>
@@ -682,7 +681,7 @@
                                 <licenseHeader>
                                     <content>// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.</content>
                                 </licenseHeader>
-                                <toggleOffOn/>
+                                <toggleOffOn />
                             </java>
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>
@@ -805,6 +804,6 @@
         <url>https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel</url>
         <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel.git</connection>
         <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel.git</developerConnection>
-        <tag>HEAD</tag>
+        <tag>java-0.2.8-alpha</tag>
     </scm>
 </project>
diff --git a/java/samples/pom.xml b/java/samples/pom.xml
index 62762ee92348..31937859aa26 100644
--- a/java/samples/pom.xml
+++ b/java/samples/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
     <artifactId>samples</artifactId>
-    <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>Semantic Kernel Samples Parent</name>
     <description>Parent pom for sample code for using the Semantic Kernel project</description>
diff --git a/java/samples/sample-code/pom.xml b/java/samples/sample-code/pom.xml
index ede38991a8dd..00ddfe8d8dc6 100644
--- a/java/samples/sample-code/pom.xml
+++ b/java/samples/sample-code/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>samples</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/samples/semantickernel-samples-guice/pom.xml b/java/samples/semantickernel-samples-guice/pom.xml
index fe052b6dde35..e9c29d1ff6a6 100644
--- a/java/samples/semantickernel-samples-guice/pom.xml
+++ b/java/samples/semantickernel-samples-guice/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>samples</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/semantickernel-api/pom.xml b/java/semantickernel-api/pom.xml
index 84d014d5951b..ac3a67580815 100644
--- a/java/semantickernel-api/pom.xml
+++ b/java/semantickernel-api/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/java/semantickernel-bom/pom.xml b/java/semantickernel-bom/pom.xml
index caf3c9d957b8..9f36512bc584 100644
--- a/java/semantickernel-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/java/semantickernel-bom/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
     <artifactId>semantickernel-bom</artifactId>
-    <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
     <name>Semantic Kernel Java BOM</name>
@@ -181,6 +181,6 @@
         <url>https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel</url>
         <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel.git</connection>
         <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel.git</developerConnection>
-        <tag>HEAD</tag>
+        <tag>java-0.2.8-alpha</tag>
     </scm>
 </project>
diff --git a/java/semantickernel-core/pom.xml b/java/semantickernel-core/pom.xml
index 58579941f413..4c8134d9ae08 100644
--- a/java/semantickernel-core/pom.xml
+++ b/java/semantickernel-core/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
         <artifactId>semantickernel-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.2.8-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.2.8-alpha</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>