diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 2cbf59f0740..2daea02beb9 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,47 @@
-jetty-8.1.6-SNAPSHOT
+jetty-9.0.0-SNAPSHOT
+
+jetty-8.1.7.v20120910 - 10 September 2012
+ + 388895 Update dependencies for jetty-jndi
+ + fix busy logging statement re: sessions
+
+jetty-8.1.6.v20120903 - 03 September 2012
+ + 347130 Empty getResourcePaths due to ZipFileClosedException
+ + 367591 Support Env variables in XmlConfiguration.
+ + 377055 Prevent webapp classloader leaks
+ + 379207 backported fixes from jetty-9 to make hierarchy work
+ + 379423 Jetty URL Decoding fails for certain international characters
+ + 383304 Reset PrintWriter on response recycle
+ + 384847 better name
+ + 385049 fix issue with pipelined connections when switching protocols
+ + 385651 Message 'Address already in use' not specific enough
+ + 386010 JspRuntimeContext rewraps System.err
+ + 386591 add UnixCrypt note to about.html
+ + 386714 used deferred auth for form login and error pages
+ + 387896 populate session in SessionAuthentication as a valueBound in addition
+   to activation so it is populate when needed
+ + 387943 Catch CNFE when no jstl jars are installed
+ + 387953 jstl does not work with jetty-7 in osgi
+ + 388072 GZipFilter incorrectly gzips when Accept-Encoding: gzip; q=0
+ + 388073 null session id from cookie causes NPE fixed
+ + 388102 Jetty HttpClient memory leaks when sending larger files
+ + 388393 WebAppProvider doesn't work alongside OSGi deployer
+ + 388502 handle earlyEOF with 500
+ + 388652 Do not flush on handle return if request is suspended
+ + JETTY-1501 Setting custom error response message changes page title
+ + JETTY-1515 Include cookies on 304 responses from DefaultServlet.
+ + JETTY-1527 handle requests with URIs like http://host  (ie no / )
+ + JETTY-1529 Ensure new session that has just been authenticated does not get
+   renewed
+ + JETTY-1532 HTTP headers decoded with platform's default encoding
+ + JETTY-1541 fixed different behaviour for single byte writes
  + 385925: make SslContextFactory.setProtocols and
    SslContextFactory.setCipherSuites preserve the order of the given parameters
 
-jetty-7.6.6-SNAPSHOT
+jetty-8.1.5.v20120716 - 16 June 2012
  + 376717 Balancer Servlet with round robin support, contribution, added
    missing license
  + 379250 Server is added to shutdown hook twice
- + 380866 idleTimeout set to 0 after session migration
+ + 380866 maxIdleTime set to 0 after session migration
  + 381399 Unable to stop a jetty instance that has not finished starting
  + 381401 Print log warning when stop attempt made with incorrect STOP.KEY
  + 381402 Make ContextHandler take set of protected directories