diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 231caf5d..f8f79ab4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
   <name>Jackson-annotations</name>
-  <version>2.18.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.18.0-rc1</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <description>Core annotations used for value types, used by Jackson data binding package.
   </description>
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:FasterXML/jackson-annotations.git</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:FasterXML/jackson-annotations.git</developerConnection>
     <url>https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-annotations</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    <tag>jackson-annotations-2.18.0-rc1</tag>
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     <osgi.export>com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.*;version=${project.version}</osgi.export>
 
     <!-- for Reproducible Builds -->
-    <project.build.outputTimestamp>2024-02-27T01:23:24Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
+    <project.build.outputTimestamp>2024-08-30T17:18:10Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>