diff --git a/maven-mboot2/pom.xml b/maven-mboot2/pom.xml
index 81ec875ff0..6f4a6bec87 100644
--- a/maven-mboot2/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-mboot2/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.modello</groupId>
       <artifactId>modello-plugin-xpp3</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
+      <version>1.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT</version>
       <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>