diff --git a/dkpro-tc-api-features/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-api-features/pom.xml
index a1bfa0a35..7ee65eb09 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-api-features/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-api-features/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-api-features</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-api/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-api/pom.xml
index a55957d19..413b085da 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-api/pom.xml
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-api</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-core/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-core/pom.xml
index f87985c16..68499fb00 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-core/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-core/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-core</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-doc/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-doc/pom.xml
index 6f3326ef0..cd06e2c44 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-doc/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-doc/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
         <artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-        <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.9.0</version>
     </parent>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <artifactId>dkpro-tc-doc</artifactId>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-evaluation/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-evaluation/pom.xml
index 22a10811c..32d23d560 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-evaluation/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-evaluation/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
     <artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.9.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>dkpro-tc-evaluation</artifactId>
   <licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-examples-groovy/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-examples-groovy/pom.xml
index 951f2a112..0af163c6f 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-examples-groovy/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-examples-groovy/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-examples-groovy</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-examples/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-examples/pom.xml
index cc810b79e..8460b7a96 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-examples/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-examples/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-examples</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-features-ngram/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-features-ngram/pom.xml
index c461689d6..061a9f21e 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-features-ngram/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-features-ngram/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-ngram</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-features-pair-similarity/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-features-pair-similarity/pom.xml
index ccc9439a4..5ba2da9f6 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-features-pair-similarity/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-features-pair-similarity/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-pair-similarity</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-features-pair/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-features-pair/pom.xml
index 02f92a87e..90877ec4e 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-features-pair/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-features-pair/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-pair</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-features-spelling/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-features-spelling/pom.xml
index 5d875d817..9a2ebb074 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-features-spelling/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-features-spelling/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-spelling</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-features/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-features/pom.xml
index fe6a906f4..ad4360fb8 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-features/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-features/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-fstore-simple/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-fstore-simple/pom.xml
index 1ad64b5fc..844c94fea 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-fstore-simple/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-fstore-simple/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-fstore-simple</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-integrationtest/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-integrationtest/pom.xml
index 3616b2436..7428c7c64 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-integrationtest/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-integrationtest/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-integrationtest</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml-crfsuite/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml-crfsuite/pom.xml
index 325ca3f6d..320824089 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml-crfsuite/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml-crfsuite/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
     <artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.9.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-crfsuite</artifactId>
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml-keras/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml-keras/pom.xml
index a7682906e..619065313 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml-keras/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml-keras/pom.xml
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
     <artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.9.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-keras</artifactId>
-  <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.9.0</version>
   <dependencies>
   	<dependency>
   		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml-liblinear/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml-liblinear/pom.xml
index b9a6c6c9c..3ca6f15f8 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml-liblinear/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml-liblinear/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
     <artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.9.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-liblinear</artifactId>
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml-libsvm/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml-libsvm/pom.xml
index 957b40d35..af85f6ded 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml-libsvm/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml-libsvm/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <parent>
   	<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
   	<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-  	<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  	<version>0.9.0</version>
   </parent>
   <dependencies>
  	<dependency>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml-svmhmm/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml-svmhmm/pom.xml
index be8011e05..e4c8283f4 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml-svmhmm/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml-svmhmm/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-svmhmm</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml-weka/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml-weka/pom.xml
index 3af3302e8..e66fda3ab 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml-weka/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml-weka/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-weka</artifactId>
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-ml/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-ml/pom.xml
index 8507b6540..99385e708 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-ml/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-ml/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<licenses>
 		<license>
diff --git a/dkpro-tc-testing/pom.xml b/dkpro-tc-testing/pom.xml
index 0ca10719c..01f1c376f 100644
--- a/dkpro-tc-testing/pom.xml
+++ b/dkpro-tc-testing/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 		<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-		<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.9.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<licenses>
 		<license>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 72735d2cd..6d7643dbd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
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 	<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 	<artifactId>dkpro-tc</artifactId>
-	<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>0.9.0</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<description>DKPro TC is a UIMA-based text classification framework built on top of DKPro Core and DKPro Lab. It is intended to alleviate supervised machine learning experiments with any kind of textual data.</description>
 	<inceptionYear>2013</inceptionYear>
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 	  	<connection>scm:git:git://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-tc</connection>
   		<developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:dkpro/dkpro-tc.git</developerConnection>
 		<url>https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-tc</url>
-	  <tag>dkpro-tc-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</tag>
+	  <tag>dkpro-tc-0.9.0</tag>
   </scm>
 	<issueManagement>
 		<url>https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-tc/issues</url>
@@ -91,107 +91,107 @@
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 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-api</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-api-features</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-core</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-evaluation</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-examples</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-examples-groovy</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-ngram</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-pair</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-pair-similarity</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-features-spelling</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
 				<artifactId>dkpro-tc-fstore-simple</artifactId>
-				<version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+				<version>0.9.0</version>
 			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-integrationtest</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
 			<dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-crfsuite</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-keras</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>                        
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-liblinear</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-libsvm</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
 			<dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-svmhmm</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-ml-weka</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.dkpro.tc</groupId>
                 <artifactId>dkpro-tc-testing</artifactId>
-                <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.9.0</version>
             </dependency>
 			<!-- Other dependencies -->
 			<dependency>