diff --git a/accumulo1.6/pom.xml b/accumulo1.6/pom.xml
index e43c39e2..1318483f 100644
--- a/accumulo1.6/pom.xml
+++ b/accumulo1.6/pom.xml
@@ -1,93 +1,93 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2011 YCSB++ project, 2014 - 2016 YCSB contributors.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>accumulo1.6-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Accumulo 1.6 DB Binding</name>
   <properties>
     <!-- This should match up to the one from your Accumulo version -->
     <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
 
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-core</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.1.6.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Needed for hadoop.io.Text :( -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
       <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-minicluster</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.1.6.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- needed directly only in test, but transitive
          at runtime for accumulo, hadoop, and thrift. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.13</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <testResources>
       <testResource>
         <directory>../workloads</directory>
         <targetPath>workloads</targetPath>
       </testResource>
       <testResource>
         <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
       </testResource>
     </testResources>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/accumulo1.7/pom.xml b/accumulo1.7/pom.xml
index c0260b8b..53ae31c7 100644
--- a/accumulo1.7/pom.xml
+++ b/accumulo1.7/pom.xml
@@ -1,93 +1,93 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2011 YCSB++ project, 2014 - 2016 YCSB contributors.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>accumulo1.7-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Accumulo 1.7 DB Binding</name>
   <properties>
     <!-- This should match up to the one from your Accumulo version -->
     <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
 
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-core</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.1.7.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Needed for hadoop.io.Text :( -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
       <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-minicluster</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.1.7.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- needed directly only in test, but transitive
          at runtime for accumulo, hadoop, and thrift. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.13</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <testResources>
       <testResource>
         <directory>../workloads</directory>
         <targetPath>workloads</targetPath>
       </testResource>
       <testResource>
         <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
       </testResource>
     </testResources>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/accumulo1.8/pom.xml b/accumulo1.8/pom.xml
index c0f251a5..933e5010 100644
--- a/accumulo1.8/pom.xml
+++ b/accumulo1.8/pom.xml
@@ -1,93 +1,93 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2011 YCSB++ project, 2014 - 2016 YCSB contributors.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>accumulo1.8-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Accumulo 1.8 DB Binding</name>
   <properties>
     <!-- This should match up to the one from your Accumulo version -->
     <hadoop.version>2.6.4</hadoop.version>
 
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-core</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.1.8.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Needed for hadoop.io.Text :( -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
       <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-minicluster</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.1.8.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- needed directly only in test, but transitive
          at runtime for accumulo, hadoop, and thrift. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.13</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <testResources>
       <testResource>
         <directory>../workloads</directory>
         <targetPath>workloads</targetPath>
       </testResource>
       <testResource>
         <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
       </testResource>
     </testResources>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/aerospike/pom.xml b/aerospike/pom.xml
index 2419558a..705909fd 100644
--- a/aerospike/pom.xml
+++ b/aerospike/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>aerospike-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Aerospike DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.aerospike</groupId>
       <artifactId>aerospike-client</artifactId>
       <version>${aerospike.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/arangodb/pom.xml b/arangodb/pom.xml
index a02e86ba..f0ca0fb2 100644
--- a/arangodb/pom.xml
+++ b/arangodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,78 +1,78 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>arangodb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>ArangoDB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.arangodb</groupId>
       <artifactId>arangodb-java-driver</artifactId>
       <version>${arangodb.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
       <version>4.5.1</version>
     </dependency>
 	<dependency>
 		<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 		<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
 		<version>1.7.13</version>
 		<type>jar</type>
 		<scope>compile</scope>
 	</dependency>
 	<dependency>
 		<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
 		<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
 		<version>1.1.3</version>
 		<type>jar</type>
 		<scope>provided</scope>
 	</dependency>
 	<dependency>
 		<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
 		<artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
 		<version>1.1.3</version>
 		<type>jar</type>
 		<scope>provided</scope>
 	</dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/asynchbase/pom.xml b/asynchbase/pom.xml
index 6f8ee1d7..d0d77460 100644
--- a/asynchbase/pom.xml
+++ b/asynchbase/pom.xml
@@ -1,136 +1,136 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>asynchbase-binding</artifactId>
   <name>AsyncHBase Client Binding for Apache HBase</name>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>asynchbase</artifactId>
       <version>${asynchbase.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
       <version>3.4.5</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>log4j</groupId>
           <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
           <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jline</groupId>
           <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>junit</groupId>
           <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>
           <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase10.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase10.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
       <version>1.2.17</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.7</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.20</version>
         <configuration>
           <argLine>-Xms4096m -Xms4096m</argLine>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/azuredocumentdb/pom.xml b/azuredocumentdb/pom.xml
index aa72a70c..7722ef63 100644
--- a/azuredocumentdb/pom.xml
+++ b/azuredocumentdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>azuredocumentdb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Azure DocumentDB Binding</name>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
       <artifactId>azure-documentdb</artifactId>
       <version>${azuredocumentdb.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/azuretablestorage/pom.xml b/azuretablestorage/pom.xml
index 25bfb402..8b6a599b 100644
--- a/azuretablestorage/pom.xml
+++ b/azuretablestorage/pom.xml
@@ -1,46 +1,46 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
         <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.15.0</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>azuretablestorage-binding</artifactId>
     <name>Azure table storage Binding</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
             <artifactId>core</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
     		<groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
     		<artifactId>azure-storage</artifactId>
     		<version>${azurestorage.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/pom.xml b/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/pom.xml
index 0b9de638..c95e9fd5 100644
--- a/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/pom.xml
+++ b/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/pom.xml
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../../</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>datastore-specific-descriptor</artifactId>
   <name>Per Datastore Binding descriptor</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <description>
     This module contains the assembly descriptor used by the individual components
     to build binding-specific distributions.
   </description>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
 
diff --git a/binding-parent/pom.xml b/binding-parent/pom.xml
index c69186de..7c0bdeec 100644
--- a/binding-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/binding-parent/pom.xml
@@ -1,175 +1,175 @@
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
   <name>YCSB Datastore Binding Parent</name>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <description>
     This module acts as the parent for new datastore bindings.
     It creates a datastore specific binary artifact.
   </description>
 
   <modules>
     <module>datastore-specific-descriptor</module>
   </modules>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- See the test-on-jdk9 profile below. Default to 'jdk9 works' -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>false</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>false</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>false</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
 
   <build>
     <pluginManagement>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${maven.assembly.version}</version>
           <dependencies>
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
               <artifactId>datastore-specific-descriptor</artifactId>
               <version>${project.version}</version>
             </dependency>
           </dependencies>
           <configuration>
             <descriptorRefs>
               <descriptorRef>datastore-specific-assembly</descriptorRef>
             </descriptorRefs>
             <finalName>ycsb-${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
             <formats>
               <format>tar.gz</format>
             </formats>
             <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
             <tarLongFileMode>posix</tarLongFileMode>
           </configuration>
           <executions>
             <execution>
               <phase>package</phase>
               <goals>
                 <goal>single</goal>
               </goals>
             </execution>
           </executions>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
           <executions>
             <execution>
               <id>validate</id>
               <configuration>
                 <configLocation>../checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
               </configuration>
             </execution>
           </executions>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${maven.dependency.version}</version>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
     <plugins>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
           <executions>
             <execution>
               <id>stage-dependencies</id>
               <phase>package</phase>
               <goals>
                 <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                  <includeScope>runtime</includeScope>
                </configuration>
             </execution>
           </executions>
         </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
   <profiles>
     <!-- If the binding defines a README, presume we should make an assembly. -->
     <profile>
       <id>datastore-binding</id>
       <activation>
         <file>
           <exists>README.md</exists>
         </file>
       </activation>
       <build>
         <plugins>
           <plugin>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
           </plugin>
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
     <!-- If the binding doesn't work with jdk9, it should redefine the
          skipJDK9 property
       -->
     <profile>
       <id>tests-on-jdk9</id>
       <activation>
         <jdk>9</jdk>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <skipTests>${skipJDK9Tests}</skipTests>
       </properties>
     </profile>
     <!-- If the binding doesn't work with jdk10, it should redefine the
          skipJDK10 property
       -->
     <profile>
       <id>tests-on-jdk10</id>
       <activation>
         <jdk>10</jdk>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <skipTests>${skipJDK10Tests}</skipTests>
       </properties>
     </profile>
     <!-- If the binding doesn't work with jdk11, it should redefine the
          skipJDK11 property
       -->
     <profile>
       <id>tests-on-jdk11</id>
       <activation>
         <jdk>11</jdk>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <skipTests>${skipJDK11Tests}</skipTests>
       </properties>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
 
diff --git a/cassandra/pom.xml b/cassandra/pom.xml
index cca60f00..a5cea3f4 100644
--- a/cassandra/pom.xml
+++ b/cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -1,147 +1,147 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>cassandra-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Cassandra 2.1+ DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Skip tests by default. will be activated by jdk8 profile -->
     <skipTests>true</skipTests>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <!-- CQL driver -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>
       <artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>
       <version>${cassandra.cql.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.cassandraunit</groupId>
       <artifactId>cassandra-unit</artifactId>
       <version>3.0.0.1</version>
       <classifier>shaded</classifier>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.21</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- only for Cassandra test (Cassandra 2.2+ uses Sigar for collecting system information, and Sigar requires some native lib files) -->
 	  <dependency>
 	    <groupId>org.hyperic</groupId>
 	    <artifactId>sigar-dist</artifactId>
 	    <version>1.6.4.129</version>
 	    <type>zip</type>
 	    <scope>test</scope>
 	  </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <profiles>
     <!-- Cassandra 2.2+ requires JDK8 to run, so none of our tests
          will work unless we're using jdk8.
       -->
     <profile>
       <id>jdk8-tests</id>
       <activation>
         <jdk>1.8</jdk>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <skipTests>false</skipTests>
       </properties>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
   <!-- sigar-dist can be downloaded from jboss repository -->
 	<repositories>
 		<repository>
 			<id>central2</id>
 			<name>sigar Repository</name>
 			<url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
 			<layout>default</layout>
 			<snapshots>
 				<enabled>false</enabled>
 			</snapshots>
 		</repository>
 	</repositories>
 	<!-- unzip sigar-dist/lib files. 
 		References: 
 		http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5388661/unzip-dependency-in-maven 
 		https://arviarya.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/sigar-access-operating-system-and-hardware-level-information/
 	 -->
  	<build>
 	 	<plugins>
 	 		<plugin>
 			    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 			    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
 			    <executions>
 			      <execution>
 			        <id>unpack-sigar</id>
 			        <phase>process-test-resources<!-- or any other valid maven phase --></phase>
 			        <goals>
 			          <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
 			        </goals>
 			        <configuration>
 			          <includeGroupIds>org.hyperic</includeGroupIds>
 			          <includeArtifactIds>sigar-dist</includeArtifactIds>
 			          <includes>**/sigar-bin/lib/*</includes>
 					  <excludes>**/sigar-bin/lib/*jar</excludes>
 			          <outputDirectory>
 			             ${project.build.directory}/cassandra-dependency
 			          </outputDirectory>
 			        </configuration>
 			      </execution>
 			    </executions>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
 			  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 			  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 			  <version>2.8</version>
 			  <configuration>
 			    <argLine>-Djava.library.path=${project.build.directory}/cassandra-dependency/hyperic-sigar-1.6.4/sigar-bin/lib</argLine>
 			  </configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			
 	 	</plugins>
  	</build>
 </project>
diff --git a/cloudspanner/pom.xml b/cloudspanner/pom.xml
index e07f6881..a47b20b4 100644
--- a/cloudspanner/pom.xml
+++ b/cloudspanner/pom.xml
@@ -1,53 +1,53 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2017 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>cloudspanner-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Cloud Spanner DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-spanner</artifactId>
       <version>${cloudspanner.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion> <!-- exclude an old version of Guava -->
           <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
           <artifactId>guava-jdk5</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 68c6f4cb..2ef61553 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -1,99 +1,99 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>core</artifactId>
   <name>Core YCSB</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
      <jackson.api.version>1.9.4</jackson.api.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>	
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.htrace</groupId>
       <artifactId>htrace-core4</artifactId>
       <version>4.1.0-incubating</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
       <version>${jackson.api.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
       <version>${jackson.api.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
       <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
       <version>6.1.1</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hdrhistogram</groupId>
       <artifactId>HdrHistogram</artifactId>
       <version>2.1.4</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
     <resources>
       <resource>
         <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
         <filtering>true</filtering>
       </resource>
     </resources>
   </build>
   
   <profiles>
     <profile>
       <!-- Build profile when running via yscb.sh or yscb.bat-->
       <id>source-run</id>
       <build>
         <plugins>
           <plugin>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
             <executions>
               <execution>
                 <id>stage-dependencies</id>
                 <phase>package</phase>
                 <goals>
                   <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                 </goals>
                 <configuration>
                   <includeScope>runtime</includeScope>
                 </configuration>
               </execution>
             </executions>
           </plugin>
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/couchbase/pom.xml b/couchbase/pom.xml
index d447f20c..1cfdf79f 100644
--- a/couchbase/pom.xml
+++ b/couchbase/pom.xml
@@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
         <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.15.0</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>couchbase-binding</artifactId>
     <name>Couchbase Binding</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.couchbase.client</groupId>
             <artifactId>couchbase-client</artifactId>
             <version>${couchbase.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
             <artifactId>core</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
             <version>2.2.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/couchbase2/pom.xml b/couchbase2/pom.xml
index 665f6c60..b01fe87b 100644
--- a/couchbase2/pom.xml
+++ b/couchbase2/pom.xml
@@ -1,48 +1,48 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
         <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.15.0</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>couchbase2-binding</artifactId>
     <name>Couchbase Java SDK 2.x Binding</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.couchbase.client</groupId>
             <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
             <version>${couchbase2.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
             <artifactId>core</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index 85262304..b2d55496 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -1,297 +1,297 @@
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>ycsb</artifactId>
   <name>YCSB Release Distribution Builder</name>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <description>
     This module creates the release package of the YCSB with all DB library bindings.
     It is only used by the build process and does not contain any real
     code of itself.
   </description>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo1.6-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo1.7-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo1.8-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>aerospike-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>arangodb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>asynchbase-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>cassandra-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>cloudspanner-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>couchbase-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>couchbase2-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>azuredocumentdb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>azuretablestorage-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>dynamodb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>elasticsearch-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>elasticsearch5-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>foundationdb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>geode-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>googledatastore-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>googlebigtable-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase098-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase12-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase14-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase20-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hypertable-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>ignite-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>infinispan-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>jdbc-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>kudu-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>memcached-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>maprdb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>maprjsondb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>mongodb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>nosqldb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>orientdb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>rados-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>redis-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>rest-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>riak-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>rocksdb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>s3-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr6-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>tarantool-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 <!--
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>voldemort-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 -->
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>${maven.assembly.version}</version>
         <configuration>
           <descriptors>
             <descriptor>src/main/assembly/distribution.xml</descriptor>
           </descriptors>
           <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
           <tarLongFileMode>posix</tarLongFileMode>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <phase>package</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>single</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
 </project>
 
diff --git a/dynamodb/pom.xml b/dynamodb/pom.xml
index aa12eb2f..80c8eb55 100644
--- a/dynamodb/pom.xml
+++ b/dynamodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,50 +1,50 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>dynamodb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>DynamoDB DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
       <version>1.10.48</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
       <version>1.2.17</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/elasticsearch/pom.xml b/elasticsearch/pom.xml
index 2348e397..fdc518cb 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -1,60 +1,60 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
         <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.15.0</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>elasticsearch-binding</artifactId>
     <name>Elasticsearch Binding</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <properties>
         <elasticsearch-version>2.4.0</elasticsearch-version>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
         <!-- jna is supported in ES and will be used when provided 
              otherwise a fallback is used -->    
             <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
             <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
             <version>4.1.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
             <artifactId>core</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
             <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
             <version>${elasticsearch-version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
             <version>4.12</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/elasticsearch5/pom.xml b/elasticsearch5/pom.xml
index c2c8ca85..c00aff11 100644
--- a/elasticsearch5/pom.xml
+++ b/elasticsearch5/pom.xml
@@ -1,228 +1,228 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2017 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Skip tests by default. will be activated by jdk8 profile -->
     <skipTests>true</skipTests>
     <elasticsearch.groupid>org.elasticsearch.distribution.zip</elasticsearch.groupid>
 
     <!-- For integration tests using ANT -->
     <integ.http.port>9400</integ.http.port>
     <integ.transport.port>9500</integ.transport.port>
 
     <!-- If tests are skipped, skip ES spin up -->
     <es.skip>${skipTests}</es.skip>
   </properties>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.10</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>integ-setup-dependencies</id>
             <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>copy</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
               <skip>${skipTests}</skip>
               <artifactItems>
                 <artifactItem>
                   <groupId>${elasticsearch.groupid}</groupId>
                   <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
                   <version>${elasticsearch5-version}</version>
                   <type>zip</type>
                 </artifactItem>
               </artifactItems>
               <useBaseVersion>true</useBaseVersion>
               <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/integration-tests/binaries</outputDirectory>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.19</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>default-test</id>
             <phase>none</phase>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
       <plugin>
         <groupId>com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting</groupId>
         <artifactId>junit4-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.3.3</version>
 
         <configuration>
           <assertions enableSystemAssertions="false">
             <enable/>
           </assertions>
 
           <listeners>
             <report-text />
           </listeners>
         </configuration>
 
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>unit-tests</id>
             <phase>test</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>junit4</goal>
             </goals>
             <inherited>true</inherited>
             <configuration>
               <skipTests>${skipTests}</skipTests>
               <includes>
                 <include>**/*Test.class</include>
               </includes>
               <excludes>
                 <exclude>**/*$*</exclude>
               </excludes>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
           <execution>
             <id>integration-tests</id>
             <phase>integration-test</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>junit4</goal>
             </goals>
             <inherited>true</inherited>
             <configuration>
               <skipTests>${skipTests}</skipTests>
               <includes>
                 <include>**/*IT.class</include>
               </includes>
               <excludes>
                 <exclude>**/*$*</exclude>
               </excludes>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
   <artifactId>elasticsearch5-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Elasticsearch 5.x Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <!-- jna is supported in ES and will be used when provided
            otherwise a fallback is used -->
       <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
       <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
       <version>4.4.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
       <artifactId>transport</artifactId>
       <version>${elasticsearch5-version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
       <artifactId>rest</artifactId>
       <version>${elasticsearch5-version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>2.8.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
       <version>2.8.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <profiles>
     <!-- Requires JDK8 to run, so none of our tests
          will work unless we're using jdk8.
       -->
     <profile>
       <id>jdk8-tests</id>
       <activation>
         <jdk>1.8</jdk>
       </activation>
       <build>
         <plugins>
           <plugin>
             <groupId>com.github.alexcojocaru</groupId>
             <artifactId>elasticsearch-maven-plugin</artifactId>
             <version>5.9</version>
             <configuration>
               <version>${elasticsearch5-version}</version>
               <clusterName>test</clusterName>
               <httpPort>9200</httpPort>
               <transportPort>9300</transportPort>
             </configuration>
             <executions>
               <execution>
                 <id>start-elasticsearch</id>
                 <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                 <goals>
                   <goal>runforked</goal>
                 </goals>
               </execution>
               <execution>
                 <id>stop-elasticsearch</id>
                 <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                 <goals>
                   <goal>stop</goal>
                 </goals>
               </execution>
             </executions>
           </plugin>
         </plugins>
       </build>
       <properties>
         <skipTests>false</skipTests>
       </properties>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/foundationdb/pom.xml b/foundationdb/pom.xml
index 71b7a14f..a2007009 100644
--- a/foundationdb/pom.xml
+++ b/foundationdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,62 +1,62 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>foundationdb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>FoundationDB Binding</name>
 
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <properties>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9,10,11 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.foundationdb</groupId>
       <artifactId>fdb-java</artifactId>
       <version>${foundationdb.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.10</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/geode/pom.xml b/geode/pom.xml
index 0aa8064c..98e2dde2 100644
--- a/geode/pom.xml
+++ b/geode/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>geode-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Geode DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.geode</groupId>
       <artifactId>geode-core</artifactId>
       <version>${geode.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/googlebigtable/pom.xml b/googlebigtable/pom.xml
index df53e551..84f5cc83 100644
--- a/googlebigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/googlebigtable/pom.xml
@@ -1,47 +1,47 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>googlebigtable-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Google Cloud Bigtable Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigtable</groupId>
       <artifactId>bigtable-hbase-1.x</artifactId>
       <version>${googlebigtable.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/googledatastore/pom.xml b/googledatastore/pom.xml
index 9549d605..5c7a468b 100644
--- a/googledatastore/pom.xml
+++ b/googledatastore/pom.xml
@@ -1,50 +1,50 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>googledatastore-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Google Cloud Datastore Binding</name>
   <url>https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-datastore</url>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud.datastore</groupId>
       <artifactId>datastore-v1-proto-client</artifactId>
       <version>1.1.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
       <version>1.2.17</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase098/pom.xml b/hbase098/pom.xml
index e54b7e46..82ad5e1b 100644
--- a/hbase098/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase098/pom.xml
@@ -1,50 +1,50 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2017 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase098-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 0.98.x DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase098.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase10/pom.xml b/hbase10/pom.xml
index 60fa925a..aa3c5d34 100644
--- a/hbase10/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase10/pom.xml
@@ -1,73 +1,73 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 1.0 DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase10.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase10.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase12/pom.xml b/hbase12/pom.xml
index da44b637..39265c02 100644
--- a/hbase12/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase12/pom.xml
@@ -1,87 +1,87 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase12-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 1.2 DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
 
     <!-- Tests can't run without a shaded hbase testing util.
          See HBASE-15666, which blocks us.
          For now, we rely on the HBase 1.0 binding and manual testing.
       -->
     <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <!-- Should match all compile scoped dependencies -->
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
           <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase12.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 <!-- blocked on HBASE-15666
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase12.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 -->
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase14/pom.xml b/hbase14/pom.xml
index 2d2d6631..16a05f4c 100644
--- a/hbase14/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase14/pom.xml
@@ -1,85 +1,85 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase14-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 1.4 DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <!-- Tests can't run without a shaded hbase testing util.
          See HBASE-15666, which blocks us.
          For now, we rely on the HBase 1.0 binding and manual testing.
       -->
     <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <!-- Should match all compile scoped dependencies -->
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
           <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase14.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 <!-- blocked on HBASE-15666
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase14.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 -->
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase20/pom.xml b/hbase20/pom.xml
index 0614ef19..2084c8f0 100644
--- a/hbase20/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase20/pom.xml
@@ -1,85 +1,85 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase20-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 2.0 DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <!-- Tests can't run without a shaded hbase testing util.
          See HBASE-15666, which blocks us.
          For now, we rely on the HBase 1.0 binding and manual testing.
       -->
     <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <!-- Should match all compile scoped dependencies -->
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
           <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase20.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 <!-- blocked on HBASE-15666
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase20.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 -->
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hypertable/pom.xml b/hypertable/pom.xml
index cb7d9b56..15c899eb 100644
--- a/hypertable/pom.xml
+++ b/hypertable/pom.xml
@@ -1,58 +1,58 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hypertable-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Hypertable DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId>
       <artifactId>libthrift</artifactId>
       <version>${thrift.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hypertable</groupId>
       <artifactId>hypertable</artifactId>
       <version>${hypertable.version}</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>clojars.org</id>
       <url>http://clojars.org/repo</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
 </project>
diff --git a/ignite/pom.xml b/ignite/pom.xml
index e1bbbbec..1283d3d7 100644
--- a/ignite/pom.xml
+++ b/ignite/pom.xml
@@ -1,99 +1,99 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012-2018 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>ignite-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Apache Ignite</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.ignite</groupId>
       <artifactId>ignite-core</artifactId>
       <version>${ignite.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.ignite</groupId>
       <artifactId>ignite-indexing</artifactId>
       <version>${ignite.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.ignite</groupId>
       <artifactId>ignite-log4j2</artifactId>
       <version>${ignite.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.21</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
       <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
       <version>1.3</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>2.11.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
       <version>2.11.0</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/infinispan/pom.xml b/infinispan/pom.xml
index 4ba31661..04d7592e 100644
--- a/infinispan/pom.xml
+++ b/infinispan/pom.xml
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>infinispan-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Infinispan DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId>
       <artifactId>infinispan-client-hotrod</artifactId>
       <version>${infinispan.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId>
       <artifactId>infinispan-core</artifactId>
       <version>${infinispan.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/jdbc/pom.xml b/jdbc/pom.xml
index 3d790742..df6afcf5 100644
--- a/jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -1,57 +1,57 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>jdbc-binding</artifactId>
   <name>JDBC DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
       <artifactId>openjpa-jdbc</artifactId>
       <version>${openjpa.jdbc.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
       <version>2.3.3</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/kudu/pom.xml b/kudu/pom.xml
index 4d3acaf7..0bb47582 100644
--- a/kudu/pom.xml
+++ b/kudu/pom.xml
@@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>kudu-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Kudu DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.kudu</groupId>
       <artifactId>kudu-client</artifactId>
       <version>${kudu.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.21</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.21</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/mapkeeper/pom.xml b/mapkeeper/pom.xml
index 5b98450f..92d033f0 100644
--- a/mapkeeper/pom.xml
+++ b/mapkeeper/pom.xml
@@ -1,52 +1,52 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>mapkeeper-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Mapkeeper DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.yahoo.mapkeeper</groupId>
        <artifactId>mapkeeper</artifactId>
        <version>${mapkeeper.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
        <artifactId>core</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>mapkeeper-releases</id>
       <url>https://raw.github.com/m1ch1/m1ch1-mvn-repo/master/releases</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>	
 
 </project>
diff --git a/maprdb/pom.xml b/maprdb/pom.xml
index 417cf25f..6472c135 100644
--- a/maprdb/pom.xml
+++ b/maprdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,77 +1,77 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved. Licensed 
 	under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this 
 	file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the 
 	License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by 
 	applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License 
 	is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 
 	KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language 
 	governing permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying 
 	LICENSE file. -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
 		<artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.15.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>maprdb-binding</artifactId>
 	<name>MapRDB Binding</name>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<repositories>
 		<repository>
 			<id>mapr-releases</id>
 			<url>http://repository.mapr.com/maven/</url>
 			<snapshots>
 				<enabled>false</enabled>
 			</snapshots>
 			<releases>
 				<enabled>true</enabled>
 			</releases>
 		</repository>
 	</repositories>
 	<properties>
 		<!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
 		<skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
 	</properties>
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
 			<artifactId>core</artifactId>
 			<version>${project.version}</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
 			<artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
 			<version>${maprhbase.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
 			<artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
 			<version>${project.version}</version>
 			<!-- Should match all compile scoped dependencies -->
 			<exclusions>
 				<exclusion>
 					<groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
 					<artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
 				</exclusion>
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
 			<version>4.12</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
 			<version>1.7.10</version>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/maprjsondb/pom.xml b/maprjsondb/pom.xml
index 8e17d542..9d233e6f 100644
--- a/maprjsondb/pom.xml
+++ b/maprjsondb/pom.xml
@@ -1,65 +1,65 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved. Licensed 
 	under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this 
 	file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the 
 	License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by 
 	applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License 
 	is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 
 	KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language 
 	governing permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying 
 	LICENSE file. -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
 		<artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.15.0</version>
 		<relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>maprjsondb-binding</artifactId>
 	<name>MapR JSON DB Binding</name>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<repositories>
 		<repository>
 			<id>mapr-releases</id>
 			<url>http://repository.mapr.com/maven/</url>
 			<snapshots>
 				<enabled>false</enabled>
 			</snapshots>
 			<releases>
 				<enabled>true</enabled>
 			</releases>
 		</repository>
 	</repositories>
 	<properties>
 		<!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
 		<skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
 	</properties>
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
 			<artifactId>core</artifactId>
 			<version>${project.version}</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.ojai</groupId>
 			<artifactId>ojai</artifactId>
 			<version>2.0-mapr-1710</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
 			<version>4.12</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
 			<version>1.7.10</version>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/memcached/pom.xml b/memcached/pom.xml
index 1299e4eb..222b7dae 100644
--- a/memcached/pom.xml
+++ b/memcached/pom.xml
@@ -1,78 +1,78 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2014-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>memcached-binding</artifactId>
   <name>memcached binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
       <version>1.2.17</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
       <version>1.9.13</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.spy</groupId>
       <artifactId>spymemcached</artifactId>
       <version>2.11.4</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>${maven.assembly.version}</version>
         <configuration>
           <descriptorRefs>
             <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
           </descriptorRefs>
           <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <phase>package</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>single</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/mongodb/pom.xml b/mongodb/pom.xml
index 0f52e6e0..a9041967 100644
--- a/mongodb/pom.xml
+++ b/mongodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,89 +1,89 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>mongodb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>MongoDB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
       <artifactId>mongo-java-driver</artifactId>
       <version>${mongodb.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.allanbank</groupId>
       <artifactId>mongodb-async-driver</artifactId>
       <version>${mongodb.async.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
       <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
       <version>1.1.2</version>
       <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.xerial.snappy</groupId>
       <artifactId>snappy-java</artifactId>
       <version>1.1.7.1</version>
       <type>jar</type>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <releases>
         <enabled>true</enabled>
         <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
         <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>
       </releases>
       <snapshots>
         <enabled>false</enabled>
         <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
         <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
       </snapshots>
       <id>allanbank</id>
       <name>Allanbank Releases</name>
       <url>http://www.allanbank.com/repo/</url>
       <layout>default</layout>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
 </project>
diff --git a/nosqldb/pom.xml b/nosqldb/pom.xml
index d3469091..406baa89 100644
--- a/nosqldb/pom.xml
+++ b/nosqldb/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>nosqldb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Oracle NoSQL Database Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.oracle.kv</groupId>
       <artifactId>oracle-nosql-client</artifactId>
       <version>3.0.5</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/orientdb/pom.xml b/orientdb/pom.xml
index c3f4ddcb..7760d3ee 100644
--- a/orientdb/pom.xml
+++ b/orientdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,67 +1,67 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>orientdb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>OrientDB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
       <name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
       <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.orientechnologies</groupId>
       <artifactId>orientdb-client</artifactId>
       <version>${orientdb.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.10</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a28372a4..35d0b0c5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,224 +1,224 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2018 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
   <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-  <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.15.0</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <name>YCSB Root</name>
 
   <description>
     This is the top level project that builds, packages the core and all the DB bindings for YCSB infrastructure.
   </description>
 
   <scm>
     <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git</connection>
     <tag>master</tag>
     <url>https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB</url>
   </scm>
   <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
         <version>7.7.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.jdom</groupId>
         <artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.collections</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-collections</artifactId>
         <version>1.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
         <version>1.7.25</version>
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
 
   <!-- Properties Management -->
   <properties>
     <maven.assembly.version>2.5.5</maven.assembly.version>
     <maven.dependency.version>2.10</maven.dependency.version>
 
     <!-- datastore binding versions, lex sorted -->
     <accumulo.1.6.version>1.6.6</accumulo.1.6.version>
     <accumulo.1.7.version>1.7.4</accumulo.1.7.version>
     <accumulo.1.8.version>1.9.1</accumulo.1.8.version>
     <aerospike.version>3.1.2</aerospike.version>
     <arangodb.version>4.4.1</arangodb.version>
     <asynchbase.version>1.7.1</asynchbase.version>
     <azuredocumentdb.version>1.8.1</azuredocumentdb.version>
     <azurestorage.version>4.0.0</azurestorage.version>
     <cassandra.cql.version>3.0.0</cassandra.cql.version>
     <cloudspanner.version>0.24.0-beta</cloudspanner.version>
     <couchbase.version>1.4.10</couchbase.version>
     <couchbase2.version>2.3.1</couchbase2.version>
     <elasticsearch5-version>5.5.1</elasticsearch5-version>
     <foundationdb.version>5.2.5</foundationdb.version>
     <geode.version>1.2.0</geode.version>
     <googlebigtable.version>1.3.0</googlebigtable.version>
     <hbase098.version>0.98.14-hadoop2</hbase098.version>
     <hbase10.version>1.0.2</hbase10.version>
     <hbase12.version>1.2.5</hbase12.version>
     <hbase14.version>1.4.2</hbase14.version>
     <hbase20.version>2.0.0</hbase20.version>
     <hypertable.version>0.9.5.6</hypertable.version>
     <ignite.version>2.6.0</ignite.version>
     <infinispan.version>7.2.2.Final</infinispan.version>
     <kudu.version>1.6.0</kudu.version>
     <maprhbase.version>1.1.8-mapr-1710</maprhbase.version>
     <!--<mapkeeper.version>1.0</mapkeeper.version>-->
     <mongodb.version>3.6.3</mongodb.version>
     <mongodb.async.version>2.0.1</mongodb.async.version>
     <openjpa.jdbc.version>2.1.1</openjpa.jdbc.version>
     <orientdb.version>2.2.10</orientdb.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <redis.version>2.9.0</redis.version>
     <riak.version>2.0.5</riak.version>
     <rocksdb.version>5.11.3</rocksdb.version>
     <s3.version>1.10.20</s3.version>
     <solr.version>5.5.3</solr.version>
     <solr6.version>6.4.1</solr6.version>
     <tarantool.version>1.6.5</tarantool.version>
     <thrift.version>0.8.0</thrift.version>
     <voldemort.version>0.81</voldemort.version>
   </properties>
 
   <modules>
     <!-- our internals -->
     <module>core</module>
     <module>binding-parent</module>
     <module>distribution</module>
     <!-- all the datastore bindings, lex sorted please -->
     <module>accumulo1.6</module>
     <module>accumulo1.7</module>
     <module>accumulo1.8</module>
     <module>aerospike</module>
     <module>arangodb</module>
     <module>asynchbase</module>
     <module>azuredocumentdb</module>
     <module>azuretablestorage</module>
     <module>cassandra</module>
     <module>cloudspanner</module>
     <module>couchbase</module>
     <module>couchbase2</module>
     <module>dynamodb</module>
     <module>elasticsearch</module>
     <module>elasticsearch5</module>
     <module>foundationdb</module>
     <module>geode</module>
     <module>googlebigtable</module>
     <module>googledatastore</module>
     <module>hbase098</module>
     <module>hbase10</module>
     <module>hbase12</module>
     <module>hbase14</module>
     <module>hbase20</module>
     <module>hypertable</module>
     <module>ignite</module>
     <module>infinispan</module>
     <module>jdbc</module>
     <module>kudu</module>
     <!--<module>mapkeeper</module>-->
     <module>maprdb</module>
     <module>maprjsondb</module>
     <module>memcached</module>
     <module>mongodb</module>
     <module>nosqldb</module>
     <module>orientdb</module>
     <module>rados</module>
     <module>redis</module>
     <module>rest</module>
     <module>riak</module>
     <module>rocksdb</module>
     <module>s3</module>
     <module>solr</module>
     <module>solr6</module>
     <module>tarantool</module>
     <!--<module>voldemort</module>-->
   </modules>
 
   <build>
     <pluginManagement>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>2.16</version>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>enforce-maven</id>
             <goals>
               <goal>enforce</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
               <rules>
                 <requireMavenVersion>
                   <version>3.1.0</version>
                 </requireMavenVersion>
               </rules>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.7.0</version>
         <configuration>
           <source>1.8</source>
           <target>1.8</target>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>check</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
               <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/rados/pom.xml b/rados/pom.xml
index e2973dba..cadd286f 100644
--- a/rados/pom.xml
+++ b/rados/pom.xml
@@ -1,67 +1,67 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>rados-binding</artifactId>
   <name>rados of Ceph FS binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.ceph</groupId>
       <artifactId>rados</artifactId>
       <version>${rados.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
 	    <groupId>org.json</groupId>
   		<artifactId>json</artifactId>
   		<version>${json.version}</version>
   	</dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
       <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
       <version>4.2.2</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <properties>
   	<rados.version>0.2.0</rados.version>
   	<json.version>20160212</json.version>
   </properties>
 </project>
diff --git a/redis/pom.xml b/redis/pom.xml
index ad9eb928..d7d54368 100644
--- a/redis/pom.xml
+++ b/redis/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>redis-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Redis DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>redis.clients</groupId>
       <artifactId>jedis</artifactId>
       <version>${redis.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/rest/pom.xml b/rest/pom.xml
index 731981db..07f62728 100644
--- a/rest/pom.xml
+++ b/rest/pom.xml
@@ -1,135 +1,135 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- Copyright (c) 2011 YCSB project, 2016 YCSB contributors. All 
 	rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
 	you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may 
 	obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
 	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed 
 	under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES 
 	OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for 
 	the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. 
 	See accompanying LICENSE file. -->
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>rest-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Rest Client Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
 
     <tomcat.version>8.0.28</tomcat.version>
     <jersey.version>2.6</jersey.version>
     <httpclient.version>4.5.1</httpclient.version>
     <httpcore.version>4.4.4</httpcore.version>
     <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
     <system-rules.version>1.16.0</system-rules.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
       <version>${httpclient.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
       <version>${httpcore.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>${junit.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.stefanbirkner</groupId>
       <artifactId>system-rules</artifactId>
       <version>${system-rules.version}</version>
     </dependency>
   	<dependency>
       <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
       <version>${jersey.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
       <version>${jersey.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
       <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
       <version>${jersey.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
       <artifactId>tomcat-dbcp</artifactId>
       <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
           <artifactId>tomcat-juli</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
       <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
       <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
       <artifactId>tomcat-embed-logging-juli</artifactId>
       <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
       <artifactId>tomcat-embed-logging-log4j</artifactId>
       <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
       <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
       <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
       <artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>
       <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>0.12</version>
         <configuration>
           <excludes>
             <exclude>src/test/resources/error_trace.txt</exclude>
             <exclude>src/test/resources/trace.txt</exclude>
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/riak/pom.xml b/riak/pom.xml
index ba9c6d18..dc9172a1 100644
--- a/riak/pom.xml
+++ b/riak/pom.xml
@@ -1,59 +1,59 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 Copyright 2014 Basho Technologies, Inc.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>riak-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Riak KV Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.basho.riak</groupId>
       <artifactId>riak-client</artifactId>
       <version>2.0.5</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.collections</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-collections</artifactId>
       <version>1.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/rocksdb/pom.xml b/rocksdb/pom.xml
index 75e31cf5..56fa9576 100644
--- a/rocksdb/pom.xml
+++ b/rocksdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,68 +1,68 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2017 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>rocksdb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>RocksDB Java Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.rocksdb</groupId>
       <artifactId>rocksdbjni</artifactId>
       <version>${rocksdb.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.jcip</groupId>
       <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
       <version>1.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.25</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.25</version>
       <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/s3/pom.xml b/s3/pom.xml
index 4a24a18d..8d44c80e 100644
--- a/s3/pom.xml
+++ b/s3/pom.xml
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
         <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.15.0</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
   
   <artifactId>s3-binding</artifactId>
   <name>S3 Storage Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
 	<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
 	<artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
 	<version>${s3.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
             <artifactId>core</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
    </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/solr/pom.xml b/solr/pom.xml
index a5ae9bc9..f0411055 100644
--- a/solr/pom.xml
+++ b/solr/pom.xml
@@ -1,77 +1,77 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. 
 All rights reserved. 
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you 
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You 
 may obtain a copy of the License at 
 	
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing 
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying 
 LICENSE file. 
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>solr-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Solr Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
       <version>${solr.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- commons-codec required for Solr Kerberos support -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
       <version>1.10</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.21</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-test-framework</artifactId>
       <version>${solr.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/solr6/pom.xml b/solr6/pom.xml
index a561bc15..5213b29f 100644
--- a/solr6/pom.xml
+++ b/solr6/pom.xml
@@ -1,92 +1,92 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. 
 All rights reserved. 
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you 
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You 
 may obtain a copy of the License at 
 	
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing 
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying 
 LICENSE file. 
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>solr6-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Solr 6 Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
     <skipJDK10Tests>true</skipJDK10Tests>
     <skipJDK11Tests>true</skipJDK11Tests>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
       <version>${solr6.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- commons-codec required for Solr Kerberos support -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
       <version>1.10</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.21</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-test-framework</artifactId>
       <version>${solr6.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <profiles>
     <!-- Solr 6+ requires JDK8 to run, so none of our tests
          will work unless we're using jdk8.
       -->
     <profile>
       <id>jdk8-tests</id>
       <activation>
         <jdk>1.8</jdk>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <skipTests>false</skipTests>
       </properties>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/tarantool/pom.xml b/tarantool/pom.xml
index b0e82023..7de7793d 100644
--- a/tarantool/pom.xml
+++ b/tarantool/pom.xml
@@ -1,47 +1,47 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>tarantool-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Tarantool DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.tarantool</groupId>
       <artifactId>connector</artifactId>
       <version>${tarantool.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/voldemort/pom.xml b/voldemort/pom.xml
index e5d70140..22d93cd0 100644
--- a/voldemort/pom.xml
+++ b/voldemort/pom.xml
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
 may obtain a copy of the License at
 
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
 implied. See the License for the specific language governing
 permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 	
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.15.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
    </parent>
   
    <artifactId>voldemort-binding</artifactId>
    <name>Voldemort DB Binding</name>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
 	
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>voldemort</groupId>
        <artifactId>voldemort</artifactId>
        <version>${voldemort.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.16</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
        <artifactId>core</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
 </project>