diff --git a/tooling/maven-activemq-perf-plugin/pom.xml b/tooling/maven-activemq-perf-plugin/pom.xml
index b1865b6feb..1f30cb65ae 100644
--- a/tooling/maven-activemq-perf-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/tooling/maven-activemq-perf-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>incubator-activemq</groupId>
             <artifactId>activeio-core</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>3.0-beta2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>