diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
index 57cc35fc77..d43b1f31d2 100644
--- a/RELEASING.md
+++ b/RELEASING.md
@@ -23,4 +23,6 @@ Things to do before issuing a new release:
 
 * If every thing is successful.  Follow the Apache guide (http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html) to build and publish artifacts to Nexus and send out a release vote.
 
+Note: The Apache Release plugin does not bump the version on the extraTests module.  Release manager should manually bump the version in the test/extra-tests/pom.xml to the next development version.
+
 Note: There is one additional step to remove the activemq-pom-<version>-source-release.zip from the Nexus staging repository before closing the staging repository.  At the moment this artifact is uploaded automatically by the Apache release plugin.  In future versions the ActiveMQ Artemis pom will be updated to take this into account.
diff --git a/tests/extra-tests/pom.xml b/tests/extra-tests/pom.xml
index 6c20a38cf5..8e59dc70c5 100644
--- a/tests/extra-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/tests/extra-tests/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
    <parent>
       <groupId>org.apache.activemq.tests</groupId>
       <artifactId>artemis-tests-pom</artifactId>
-      <version>1.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <version>1.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
 
    <artifactId>extra-tests</artifactId>