diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fa04393..d8d505f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 target/
 .project
 .classpath
+pom.xml.versionsBackup
diff --git a/backend/pom.xml b/backend/pom.xml
index e1445ad..ff13d7b 100644
--- a/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/backend/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>de.saxsys.projectiler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>projectiler</artifactId>
-		<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>backend</artifactId>
 	<dependencies>
diff --git a/crawler-api/pom.xml b/crawler-api/pom.xml
index 919da61..04f1065 100644
--- a/crawler-api/pom.xml
+++ b/crawler-api/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>de.saxsys.projectiler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>projectiler</artifactId>
-		<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>crawler-api</artifactId>
 	<properties>
diff --git a/crawler-jsoup/pom.xml b/crawler-jsoup/pom.xml
index 6ec4304..e284f16 100644
--- a/crawler-jsoup/pom.xml
+++ b/crawler-jsoup/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>de.saxsys.projectiler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>projectiler</artifactId>
-		<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>crawler-jsoup</artifactId>
 	<dependencies>
diff --git a/crawler-selenium/pom.xml b/crawler-selenium/pom.xml
index 8d9423c..348eba3 100644
--- a/crawler-selenium/pom.xml
+++ b/crawler-selenium/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>de.saxsys.projectiler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>projectiler</artifactId>
-		<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>crawler-selenium</artifactId>
 	<properties>
diff --git a/javafx/pom.xml b/javafx/pom.xml
index eceff73..de13a55 100644
--- a/javafx/pom.xml
+++ b/javafx/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>de.saxsys.projectiler</groupId>
 		<artifactId>projectiler</artifactId>
-		<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<properties>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 57c5da1..d3c243a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>de.saxsys.projectiler</groupId>
 	<artifactId>projectiler</artifactId>
-	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>utf-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>