diff --git a/openjpa-all/pom.xml b/openjpa-all/pom.xml
index d90bed594..ad9b7d711 100644
--- a/openjpa-all/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-all/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <build>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
                                  javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider
                                  org.apache.openjpa.kernel.exps.ExpressionParser
                                 -->
-                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
                                 <!-- Need to add some MANIFEST.MF metadata -->
                                 <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                     <manifestEntries>
diff --git a/openjpa-examples/pom.xml b/openjpa-examples/pom.xml
index 7533b1d79..4f601f481 100644
--- a/openjpa-examples/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-examples/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/openjpa-integration/examples/pom.xml b/openjpa-integration/examples/pom.xml
index 63456ca24..637a3ae2b 100644
--- a/openjpa-integration/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-integration/examples/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-integration</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <profiles>
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
                         <echo>Running OpenJPA Examples</echo>
 
                         <property name="examples.base" value="${basedir}/target/examples" />
-                        <delete dir="${examples.base}" quiet="true"/>
+                        <delete dir="${examples.base}" quiet="true" />
                         <mkdir dir="${examples.base}" />
 
                         <unzip overwrite="false" dest="${examples.base}" src="../../openjpa-project/target/site/downloads/apache-openjpa-${pom.version}-binary.zip" />
diff --git a/openjpa-integration/pom.xml b/openjpa-integration/pom.xml
index 1a582f3d8..dd63c334a 100644
--- a/openjpa-integration/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-integration/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <modules>
         <module>examples</module>
diff --git a/openjpa-integration/tck/pom.xml b/openjpa-integration/tck/pom.xml
index 28ad8fcc2..237c913b7 100644
--- a/openjpa-integration/tck/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-integration/tck/pom.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-integration</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <profiles>
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
                         <echo>Running Sun JPA 2.0 TCK Init</echo>
                         <property name="tck.base" value="${basedir}/target/tck" />
                         <property name="tck.dir" value="${tck.base}/jpatck" />
-                        <property name="LOCAL_M2_REPO" value="${settings.localRepository}"/>
+                        <property name="LOCAL_M2_REPO" value="${settings.localRepository}" />
                         <ant antfile="${basedir}/tck2.xml">
                             <target name="init" />
                         </ant>
diff --git a/openjpa-integration/validation/pom.xml b/openjpa-integration/validation/pom.xml
index b9dc596ea..42f60be4c 100644
--- a/openjpa-integration/validation/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-integration/validation/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-integration</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>openjpa-integration-validation</artifactId>
diff --git a/openjpa-jdbc/pom.xml b/openjpa-jdbc/pom.xml
index 1c18691b3..67951058e 100644
--- a/openjpa-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/openjpa-kernel/pom.xml b/openjpa-kernel/pom.xml
index 25531e050..46f54bc22 100644
--- a/openjpa-kernel/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-kernel/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/openjpa-lib/pom.xml b/openjpa-lib/pom.xml
index ea5e83a36..221bfb64d 100644
--- a/openjpa-lib/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-lib/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/pom.xml b/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/pom.xml
index fff22d934..fe2f9c779 100644
--- a/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
diff --git a/openjpa-persistence-locking/pom.xml b/openjpa-persistence-locking/pom.xml
index 687aa9fc4..d88a00f2f 100644
--- a/openjpa-persistence-locking/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-persistence-locking/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
diff --git a/openjpa-persistence/pom.xml b/openjpa-persistence/pom.xml
index a35da8b37..93a3de7b9 100644
--- a/openjpa-persistence/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-persistence/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/openjpa-project/pom.xml b/openjpa-project/pom.xml
index a8d515b7e..4059a22fb 100644
--- a/openjpa-project/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-project/pom.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <properties>
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
                                         <move file="${docbook.target}/manual.html" tofile="${docbook.target}/index.html" />
                                         <!-- Replace a 'base href' token to 'base target' in the index.html -->
                                         <!-- This base href was inserted by manual-xhtml-chunk.xsl parameter 'html.base' -->
-										<replace file="${docbook.target}/index.html" token="base href" value="base target"/>
+										<replace file="${docbook.target}/index.html" token="base href" value="base target" />
                                         <!-- Copy main.html from original location to docbook target  -->
                                         <copy file="${docbook.source}/main.html" tofile="${docbook.target}/main.html" />
                                         <!-- copy over images and styles -->
@@ -392,10 +392,10 @@
                                 <configuration>
                                     <tasks>
                                         <ant antfile="upload.xml" target="upload" inheritRefs="true">
-                                            <property name="nightly.user.name" value="${nightly.user.name}"/>
-                                            <property name="nightly.password" value="${nightly.password}"/>
-                                            <property name="nightly.version" value="${nightly.version}"/>
-                                            <property name="pom.version" value="${pom.version}"/>
+                                            <property name="nightly.user.name" value="${nightly.user.name}" />
+                                            <property name="nightly.password" value="${nightly.password}" />
+                                            <property name="nightly.version" value="${nightly.version}" />
+                                            <property name="pom.version" value="${pom.version}" />
                                         </ant>
                                     </tasks>
                                 </configuration>
diff --git a/openjpa-slice/pom.xml b/openjpa-slice/pom.xml
index df22a2e91..1663d8aed 100644
--- a/openjpa-slice/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-slice/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
diff --git a/openjpa-xmlstore/pom.xml b/openjpa-xmlstore/pom.xml
index c78e6d7ff..c287c3acb 100644
--- a/openjpa-xmlstore/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa-xmlstore/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/openjpa/pom.xml b/openjpa/pom.xml
index f9e299690..d5a186b1a 100644
--- a/openjpa/pom.xml
+++ b/openjpa/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
         <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <build>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
                                  javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider
                                  org.apache.openjpa.kernel.exps.ExpressionParser
                                 -->
-                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
                                 <!-- Need to add some MANIFEST.MF metadata -->
                                 <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                     <manifestEntries>
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
                             <tasks>
-                                <unzip src="${project.build.directory}/${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}.jar" dest="${project.build.directory}/classes"/>
+                                <unzip src="${project.build.directory}/${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}.jar" dest="${project.build.directory}/classes" />
                             </tasks>
                         </configuration>
                     </execution>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 292680549..bd3ab8d01 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         Changing this version needs to also be done in all children poms
         See: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624
     -->
-    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.0.0-beta2</version>
 
     <properties>
         <openjpa.version>${pom.version}</openjpa.version>
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@
     </distributionManagement>
 
     <scm>
-        <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/trunk</connection>
-        <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/trunk</developerConnection>
-        <url>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/trunk</url>
+        <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/tags/2.0.0-beta2</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/tags/2.0.0-beta2</developerConnection>
+        <url>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/tags/2.0.0-beta2</url>
     </scm>
 
     <modules>
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@
                        <configuration>
                            <argLine>${surefire.jvm.args}</argLine>
                            <includes>
-                               <include></include>
+                               <include />
                            </includes>
                        </configuration>
                    </plugin>