diff --git a/accumulo/pom.xml b/accumulo/pom.xml
index ff67ba4f..30d9c6e3 100644
--- a/accumulo/pom.xml
+++ b/accumulo/pom.xml
@@ -1,85 +1,85 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>accumulo-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Accumulo DB Binding</name>
   <properties>
     <!-- This should match up to the one from your Accumulo version -->
     <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-core</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Needed for hadoop.io.Text :( -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
       <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>4.12</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-minicluster</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.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 62c03246..a833af56 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 509c9419..8c940ce6 100644
--- a/arangodb/pom.xml
+++ b/arangodb/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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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.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 59bc09ca..5584ff54 100644
--- a/asynchbase/pom.xml
+++ b/asynchbase/pom.xml
@@ -1,122 +1,122 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>asynchbase-binding</artifactId>
   <name>AsyncHBase Client Binding for Apache HBase</name>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
   </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>
 </project>
diff --git a/azuretablestorage/pom.xml b/azuretablestorage/pom.xml
index c3c2c176..17b3e85c 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.12.0</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 ed06bfa7..c2fab961 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 b3da936a..929cc9ee 100644
--- a/binding-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/binding-parent/pom.xml
@@ -1,149 +1,149 @@
 <!-- 
 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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>
   </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>
   </profiles>
 </project>
 
diff --git a/cassandra/pom.xml b/cassandra/pom.xml
index def64423..0768d661 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index e1a22d90..6cc72fc9 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -1,72 +1,72 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>core</artifactId>
   <name>Core YCSB</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
      <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
      <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>
 </project>
diff --git a/couchbase/pom.xml b/couchbase/pom.xml
index d3305cd2..cd02ab60 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.12.0</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 ea47641b..77df5c84 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.12.0</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 a8c693f6..ecbf5ecf 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -1,232 +1,232 @@
 <!-- 
 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${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>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>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>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>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase094-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${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>hypertable-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>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>mongodb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${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>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 ad762384..823569d8 100644
--- a/dynamodb/pom.xml
+++ b/dynamodb/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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>dynamodb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>DynamoDB DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
   </properties>
 
   <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>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.15</version>
         <configuration>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <configLocation>../checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
           <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
           <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>checkstyle</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/elasticsearch/pom.xml b/elasticsearch/pom.xml
index 52159351..44859295 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.12.0</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/geode/pom.xml b/geode/pom.xml
index 85ad4f18..f657465b 100644
--- a/geode/pom.xml
+++ b/geode/pom.xml
@@ -1,74 +1,74 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>geode-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Geode DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
   </properties>
 
   <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>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.15</version>
         <configuration>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <configLocation>../checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
           <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
           <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>checkstyle</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
   
 </project>
diff --git a/googlebigtable/pom.xml b/googlebigtable/pom.xml
index c1699aee..0cb0fb7f 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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-1.0</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>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/googledatastore/pom.xml b/googledatastore/pom.xml
index cfb1c7b3..e4f63e18 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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/hbase094/pom.xml b/hbase094/pom.xml
index 67d352bb..863fb04f 100644
--- a/hbase094/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase094/pom.xml
@@ -1,68 +1,68 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase094-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 0.94.x DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <!-- This binding is identical to the HBase 0.98, other than dependencies. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase094.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
       <version>1.0.4</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase098-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
       <!-- HBase 0.98.0 depends on hbase-client, HBase 0.94.0 on hbase.
            Override all dependencies. -->
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>*</groupId>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.12</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 21c2cb19..5c66d8db 100644
--- a/hbase098/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase098/pom.xml
@@ -1,48 +1,48 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase098-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 0.98.x DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase098.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase10/pom.xml b/hbase10/pom.xml
index f8a9b522..93e59fe8 100644
--- a/hbase10/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase10/pom.xml
@@ -1,72 +1,72 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 1.0 DB Binding</name>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
   </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/hypertable/pom.xml b/hypertable/pom.xml
index 16df64b9..3fcd4e4a 100644
--- a/hypertable/pom.xml
+++ b/hypertable/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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>hypertable-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Hypertable DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
   </properties>
 
   <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>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.15</version>
         <configuration>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <configLocation>../checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
           <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
           <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>checkstyle</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>clojars.org</id>
       <url>http://clojars.org/repo</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
 </project>
diff --git a/infinispan/pom.xml b/infinispan/pom.xml
index db71f6b5..bf8d75de 100644
--- a/infinispan/pom.xml
+++ b/infinispan/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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>infinispan-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Infinispan DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
   </properties>
 
   <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>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.15</version>
         <configuration>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <configLocation>../checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
           <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
           <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>checkstyle</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/jdbc/pom.xml b/jdbc/pom.xml
index e09a9381..0eebffdc 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 cd0e17ed..ad0dfb85 100644
--- a/kudu/pom.xml
+++ b/kudu/pom.xml
@@ -1,58 +1,58 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>kudu-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Kudu DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.kududb</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>
   </dependencies>
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <releases>
         <enabled>true</enabled>
       </releases>
       <snapshots>
         <enabled>false</enabled>
       </snapshots>
       <id>cloudera-repo</id>
       <name>Cloudera Releases</name>
       <url>https://repository.cloudera.com/artifactory/cloudera-repos</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
 </project>
diff --git a/mapkeeper/pom.xml b/mapkeeper/pom.xml
index e3405c42..72fe01a9 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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/memcached/pom.xml b/memcached/pom.xml
index bfeaf8ff..0ae664b7 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 352a3780..e77acf42 100644
--- a/mongodb/pom.xml
+++ b/mongodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,82 +1,82 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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>
   </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 c38876c2..c527faab 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 8e6ab133..b01f6a55 100644
--- a/orientdb/pom.xml
+++ b/orientdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,66 +1,66 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.orientechnologies</groupId>
       <artifactId>orientdb-client</artifactId>
       <version>${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 d6b7969c..86bef775 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,183 +1,183 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
   <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-  <version>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.12.0</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>
       <!--
       Nail down slf4j version to 1.6 so that it defaults to no-op logger.
       http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder
       -->
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
         <version>1.6.4</version>
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
 
   <!-- Properties Management -->
   <properties>
     <maven.assembly.version>2.5.5</maven.assembly.version>
     <maven.dependency.version>2.10</maven.dependency.version>
     <asynchbase.version>1.7.1</asynchbase.version>
     <hbase094.version>0.94.27</hbase094.version>
     <hbase098.version>0.98.14-hadoop2</hbase098.version>
     <hbase10.version>1.0.2</hbase10.version>
     <accumulo.version>1.6.0</accumulo.version>
     <cassandra.cql.version>3.0.0</cassandra.cql.version>
     <geode.version>1.0.0-incubating.M3</geode.version>
     <googlebigtable.version>0.2.3</googlebigtable.version>
     <infinispan.version>7.2.2.Final</infinispan.version>
     <kudu.version>0.9.0</kudu.version>
     <openjpa.jdbc.version>2.1.1</openjpa.jdbc.version>
     <!--<mapkeeper.version>1.0</mapkeeper.version>-->
     <mongodb.version>3.0.3</mongodb.version>
     <mongodb.async.version>2.0.1</mongodb.async.version>
     <orientdb.version>2.2.10</orientdb.version>
     <redis.version>2.0.0</redis.version>
     <s3.version>1.10.20</s3.version>
     <voldemort.version>0.81</voldemort.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <thrift.version>0.8.0</thrift.version>
     <hypertable.version>0.9.5.6</hypertable.version>
     <couchbase.version>1.4.10</couchbase.version>
     <couchbase2.version>2.3.1</couchbase2.version>
     <tarantool.version>1.6.5</tarantool.version>
     <riak.version>2.0.5</riak.version>
     <aerospike.version>3.1.2</aerospike.version>
     <solr.version>5.4.0</solr.version>
     <solr6.version>6.2.1</solr6.version>
     <arangodb.version>2.7.3</arangodb.version>
     <azurestorage.version>4.0.0</azurestorage.version>
   </properties>
 
   <modules>
     <!-- our internals -->
     <module>core</module>
     <module>binding-parent</module>
     <!-- all the datastore bindings, lex sorted please -->
     <module>accumulo</module>
     <module>aerospike</module>
     <module>arangodb</module>
     <module>asynchbase</module>
     <module>azuretablestorage</module>
     <module>cassandra</module>
     <module>couchbase</module>
     <module>couchbase2</module>
     <module>distribution</module>
     <module>dynamodb</module>
     <module>elasticsearch</module>
     <module>geode</module>
     <module>googlebigtable</module>
     <module>googledatastore</module>
     <module>hbase094</module>
     <module>hbase098</module>
     <module>hbase10</module>
     <module>hypertable</module>
     <module>infinispan</module>
     <module>jdbc</module>
     <module>kudu</module>
     <!--<module>mapkeeper</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>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-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.3</version>
         <configuration>
           <source>1.7</source>
           <target>1.7</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 10645642..80cbc1a7 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 56d01f50..5c09a64a 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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 b47ccb05..91f3e2bb 100644
--- a/rest/pom.xml
+++ b/rest/pom.xml
@@ -1,115 +1,115 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>rest-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Rest Client Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <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>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/riak/pom.xml b/riak/pom.xml
index b9211586..3bb51250 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/s3/pom.xml b/s3/pom.xml
index f9c6292b..6708850a 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.12.0</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 f4a937b6..db6de254 100644
--- a/solr/pom.xml
+++ b/solr/pom.xml
@@ -1,64 +1,64 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>solr-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Solr Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Tests do not run on jdk9 -->
     <skipJDK9Tests>true</skipJDK9Tests>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
       <version>${solr.version}</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>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/solr6/pom.xml b/solr6/pom.xml
index 29a1c63e..9a753153 100644
--- a/solr6/pom.xml
+++ b/solr6/pom.xml
@@ -1,79 +1,79 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>solr6-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Solr 6 Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <!-- Skip tests by default. will be activated by jdk8 profile -->
     <skipTests>true</skipTests>
   </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>
     <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>
     </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 0e973604..5d174da9 100644
--- a/tarantool/pom.xml
+++ b/tarantool/pom.xml
@@ -1,75 +1,75 @@
 <?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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>tarantool-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Tarantool DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
     <checkstyle.failOnViolation>false</checkstyle.failOnViolation>
   </properties>
 
   <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>
 
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.15</version>
         <configuration>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <configLocation>../checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
           <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
           <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>checkstyle</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/voldemort/pom.xml b/voldemort/pom.xml
index 2a5794de..2b876e83 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>0.12.0-RC2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.12.0</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>