diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8c8aaaebd..89855779b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -275,9 +275,10 @@
 
   <properties>
     <commons.componentid>math</commons.componentid>
-    <commons.release.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</commons.release.version>
+    <!-- do not use snapshot suffix here -->
+    <commons.release.version>3.0</commons.release.version>
     <!-- <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version> -->
-    <commons.binary.suffix></commons.binary.suffix>
+    <commons.binary.suffix>-bin</commons.binary.suffix>
     <commons.jira.id>MATH</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12310485</commons.jira.pid>
     <maven.compile.source>1.5</maven.compile.source>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/download_math.xml b/src/site/xdoc/download_math.xml
index 779e59702..510e7a97e 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/download_math.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/download_math.xml
@@ -99,14 +99,14 @@ limitations under the License.
       <subsection name="Binaries">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0.tar.gz">commons-math3-3.0.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0-bin.tar.gz">commons-math3-3.0-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0-bin.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0.zip">commons-math3-3.0.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0-bin.zip">commons-math3-3.0-bin.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0-bin.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-3.0-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>