diff --git a/fluent-hc/pom.xml b/fluent-hc/pom.xml
index 0569813da..88b06a943 100644
--- a/fluent-hc/pom.xml
+++ b/fluent-hc/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>fluent-hc</artifactId>
   <name>Fluent API for Apache HttpClient</name>
diff --git a/httpclient-cache/pom.xml b/httpclient-cache/pom.xml
index 7f03ff043..9b94af88e 100644
--- a/httpclient-cache/pom.xml
+++ b/httpclient-cache/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpclient-cache</artifactId>
   <name>Apache HttpClient Cache</name>
diff --git a/httpclient-osgi/pom.xml b/httpclient-osgi/pom.xml
index 07307c59d..7730a48dc 100644
--- a/httpclient-osgi/pom.xml
+++ b/httpclient-osgi/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpclient-osgi</artifactId>
   <name>Apache HttpClient OSGi bundle</name>
diff --git a/httpclient-win/pom.xml b/httpclient-win/pom.xml
index b89719acb..ca488b37d 100644
--- a/httpclient-win/pom.xml
+++ b/httpclient-win/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3-beta3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>winauth-jni</artifactId>
   <name>Windows Integrated Auth</name>
diff --git a/httpclient/pom.xml b/httpclient/pom.xml
index 8bb89a541..ae6f18332 100644
--- a/httpclient/pom.xml
+++ b/httpclient/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
   <name>Apache HttpClient</name>
diff --git a/httpmime/pom.xml b/httpmime/pom.xml
index 617580fa9..698978292 100644
--- a/httpmime/pom.xml
+++ b/httpmime/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
   <name>Apache HttpClient Mime</name>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 992b6fa85..ab2b8efcb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>httpcomponents-client</artifactId>
   <name>HttpComponents Client</name>
-  <version>4.3.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>4.4-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <description>Apache HttpComponents Client is a library of components for building client side HTTP services</description>
   <url>http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client</url>
   <inceptionYear>1999</inceptionYear>
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
     <httpcore.version>4.3.1</httpcore.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.6</commons-codec.version>
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@
     <module>httpmime</module>
     <module>fluent-hc</module>
     <module>httpclient-cache</module>
-    <!--module>httpclient-win</module-->
+    <module>httpclient-win</module>
     <module>httpclient-osgi</module>
   </modules>