diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index efa16dba..d2b02b27 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
-    <sebserver-version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</sebserver-version>
+    <sebserver-version>1.4-rc1</sebserver-version>
     <build-version>${sebserver-version}</build-version>
     <revision>${sebserver-version}</revision>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>