diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 16faa2d1d..28b69092b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
   <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-  <version>6.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>6.8.1</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>checkstyle</name>