diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c1124cdd..1ad5e3af 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <groupId>de.gwdg.metadataqa</groupId>
   <artifactId>metadata-qa-api</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>0.9.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.8.1</version>
   <name>Metadata Quality Assurance Framework API</name>
   <description>
     A metadata quality assurance framework. It checks some metrics of