diff --git a/gs-web-elasticsearch/pom.xml b/gs-web-elasticsearch/pom.xml
index fe7152b..92c5a49 100644
--- a/gs-web-elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/gs-web-elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>elasticgeo</artifactId>
     <groupId>mil.nga.giat</groupId>
-    <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>gs-web-elasticsearch</artifactId>
-  <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.16.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>GeoServer Elasticsearch Module</name>
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/gt-elasticsearch-process/pom.xml b/gt-elasticsearch-process/pom.xml
index 88565f4..de541d7 100644
--- a/gt-elasticsearch-process/pom.xml
+++ b/gt-elasticsearch-process/pom.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>elasticgeo</artifactId>
     <groupId>mil.nga.giat</groupId>
-    <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>gt-elasticsearch-process</artifactId>
-  <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.16.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>GeoTools Elasticsearch Processes</name>
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/gt-elasticsearch/pom.xml b/gt-elasticsearch/pom.xml
index 8bde50f..1150a10 100644
--- a/gt-elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/gt-elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>elasticgeo</artifactId>
     <groupId>mil.nga.giat</groupId>
-    <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>gt-elasticsearch</artifactId>
-  <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.16.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>GeoTools Elasticsearch DataStore</name>
   <properties>
diff --git a/joda-shaded/pom.xml b/joda-shaded/pom.xml
index f1373d0..06ea8fe 100644
--- a/joda-shaded/pom.xml
+++ b/joda-shaded/pom.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>elasticgeo</artifactId>
     <groupId>mil.nga.giat</groupId>
-    <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>joda-shaded</artifactId>
-  <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.16.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Elasticsearch Joda Shaded</name>
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5103252..3030103 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>mil.nga.giat</groupId>
   <artifactId>elasticgeo</artifactId>
-  <version>2.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.16.0</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <name>ElasticGeo</name>
   <description>ElasticGeo provides a GeoTools data store that allows geospatial features from an Elasticsearch index to be published via OGC services using GeoServer.</description>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   </modules>
   <scm>
     <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/ngageoint/elasticgeo.git</connection>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    <tag>2.16.0-RC1</tag>
     <url>https://github.com/ngageoint/elasticgeo.git</url>
   </scm>
   <properties>