diff --git a/accumulo/pom.xml b/accumulo/pom.xml
index a087dd97..306d4854 100644
--- a/accumulo/pom.xml
+++ b/accumulo/pom.xml
@@ -1,67 +1,67 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2011 YCSB++ project, 2014 - 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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>accumulo-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Accumulo DB Binding</name>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.accumulo</groupId>
       <artifactId>accumulo-core</artifactId>
       <version>${accumulo.version}</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
           <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId>
           <artifactId>thrift</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
           <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
       <version>3.3.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
       <version>0.20.203.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/aerospike/pom.xml b/aerospike/pom.xml
index 55b82ecc..224d5fc1 100644
--- a/aerospike/pom.xml
+++ b/aerospike/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/pom.xml b/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/pom.xml
index 4bfeeecc..681cc5ee 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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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 4cbb2755..f9d9ebed 100644
--- a/binding-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/binding-parent/pom.xml
@@ -1,119 +1,119 @@
 <!-- 
 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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>
 
   <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>
           </configuration>
           <executions>
             <execution>
               <phase>package</phase>
               <goals>
                 <goal>single</goal>
               </goals>
             </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>
   </profiles>
 </project>
 
diff --git a/cassandra/pom.xml b/cassandra/pom.xml
index 73de9d9f..07ffaac8 100644
--- a/cassandra/pom.xml
+++ b/cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+     <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
      <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>cassandra-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Cassandra DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cassandra</groupId>
        <artifactId>cassandra-all</artifactId>
        <version>${cassandra.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <!-- CQL driver -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>
        <artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>
        <version>${cassandra.cql.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
        <artifactId>core</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 1d747eda..d81b0801 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -1,81 +1,81 @@
 <?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>root</artifactId>
-    <version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>core</artifactId>
   <name>Core YCSB</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
      <jackson.api.version>1.9.4</jackson.api.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>	
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.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>
     <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/couchbase/pom.xml b/couchbase/pom.xml
index 21eb5462..e6814996 100644
--- a/couchbase/pom.xml
+++ b/couchbase/pom.xml
@@ -1,62 +1,62 @@
 <?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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
         <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>couchbase-binding</artifactId>
     <name>Couchbase Binding</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>couchbase</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>
 
     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <id>couchbase</id>
             <name>Couchbase Maven Repository</name>
             <url>http://files.couchbase.com/maven2/</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
 </project>
diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index 82592028..69ac0858 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -1,161 +1,161 @@
 <!-- 
 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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>cassandra-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>couchbase-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>dynamodb-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>elasticsearch-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>gemfire-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${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>mongodb-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>redis-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>
         </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 1fe96f76..ca776cf6 100644
--- a/dynamodb/pom.xml
+++ b/dynamodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,49 +1,49 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>dynamodb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>DynamoDB DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
       <version>1.3.14</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.17</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/elasticsearch/pom.xml b/elasticsearch/pom.xml
index 019d5870..440fcded 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -1,60 +1,60 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
         <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>elasticsearch-binding</artifactId>
     <name>ElasticSearch Binding</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <properties>
         <elasticsearch-version>0.19.8</elasticsearch-version>
     </properties>
     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
             <name>Sonatype releases</name>
             <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
     <dependencies>
         <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>org.testng</groupId>
             <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
             <version>6.1.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/gemfire/pom.xml b/gemfire/pom.xml
index 8ce72d75..83a1f18f 100644
--- a/gemfire/pom.xml
+++ b/gemfire/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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>gemfire-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Gemfire DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.gemstone.gemfire</groupId>
       <artifactId>gemfire</artifactId>
       <version>${gemfire.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>gemstone</id>
       <url>http://dist.gemstone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/maven/release</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>	
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase094/pom.xml b/hbase094/pom.xml
index 3a3ea06e..75a65dda 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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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 627f31e8..0a22b0cd 100644
--- a/hbase098/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase098/pom.xml
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase098-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 0.98.x DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase098.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hbase10/pom.xml b/hbase10/pom.xml
index d63d149b..9e9c6039 100644
--- a/hbase10/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase10/pom.xml
@@ -1,56 +1,56 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase10-binding</artifactId>
   <name>HBase 1.0 DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase10.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${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.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
       <version>${hbase10.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hypertable/pom.xml b/hypertable/pom.xml
index ce0cca43..8905f2de 100644
--- a/hypertable/pom.xml
+++ b/hypertable/pom.xml
@@ -1,57 +1,57 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>hypertable-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Hypertable DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId>
       <artifactId>libthrift</artifactId>
       <version>${thrift.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hypertable</groupId>
       <artifactId>hypertable</artifactId>
       <version>${hypertable.version}</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>clojars.org</id>
       <url>http://clojars.org/repo</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
 </project>
diff --git a/infinispan/pom.xml b/infinispan/pom.xml
index 7cd21492..5c187e31 100644
--- a/infinispan/pom.xml
+++ b/infinispan/pom.xml
@@ -1,50 +1,50 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>infinispan-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Infinispan DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId>
       <artifactId>infinispan-client-hotrod</artifactId>
       <version>${infinispan.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId>
       <artifactId>infinispan-core</artifactId>
       <version>${infinispan.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/jdbc/pom.xml b/jdbc/pom.xml
index 2c53b016..883f0033 100644
--- a/jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/mapkeeper/pom.xml b/mapkeeper/pom.xml
index a8303f6f..f8b9952d 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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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/mongodb/pom.xml b/mongodb/pom.xml
index fe157e0e..699a44eb 100644
--- a/mongodb/pom.xml
+++ b/mongodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,106 +1,106 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>
   <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>
       <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 2397840a..89191b48 100644
--- a/nosqldb/pom.xml
+++ b/nosqldb/pom.xml
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>nosqldb-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Oracle NoSQL Database Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
       <artifactId>kvclient</artifactId>
       <version>1.2.123</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 253f389b..3250c813 100644
--- a/orientdb/pom.xml
+++ b/orientdb/pom.xml
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>
 	<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-core</artifactId>
 			<version>1.7.10</version>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 383ce6d1..f54a66f7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,154 +1,154 @@
 <?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
   <artifactId>root</artifactId>
-  <version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>
       <!-- voldemort -->
       <dependency>
         <groupId>checkstyle</groupId>
         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
         <version>5.0</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>
     <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.version>1.2.9</cassandra.version>
     <cassandra.cql.version>1.0.3</cassandra.cql.version>
     <gemfire.version>8.1.0</gemfire.version>
     <infinispan.version>7.2.2.Final</infinispan.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>1.0.1</orientdb.version>
     <redis.version>2.0.0</redis.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>1.1.8</couchbase.version>
     <tarantool.version>1.6.1</tarantool.version>
     <aerospike.version>3.1.2</aerospike.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>cassandra</module>
     <module>couchbase</module>
     <module>distribution</module>
     <module>dynamodb</module>
     <module>elasticsearch</module>
     <module>gemfire</module>
     <module>hbase094</module>
     <module>hbase098</module>
     <module>hbase10</module>
     <module>hypertable</module>
     <module>infinispan</module>
     <module>jdbc</module>
     <!--<module>mapkeeper</module>-->
     <module>mongodb</module>
     <!--module>nosqldb</module-->
     <module>orientdb</module>
     <module>redis</module>
     <module>tarantool</module>
     <!--<module>voldemort</module>-->
   </modules>
 
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.3</version>
         <configuration>
           <source>1.6</source>
           <target>1.6</target>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.15</version>
         <configuration>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
           <id>validate</id>
             <phase>validate</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>checkstyle</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/redis/pom.xml b/redis/pom.xml
index a58b59b7..64c8451e 100644
--- a/redis/pom.xml
+++ b/redis/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,45 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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/tarantool/pom.xml b/tarantool/pom.xml
index 6944b5e9..564b4118 100644
--- a/tarantool/pom.xml
+++ b/tarantool/pom.xml
@@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
 <?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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>tarantool-binding</artifactId>
   <name>Tarantool DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.tarantool</groupId>
       <artifactId>connector</artifactId>
       <version>${tarantool.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <repositories>
     <repository>
       <id>dgreenru-repo</id>
       <name>dgreenru repository</name>
       <url>http://dgreenru.github.com/repo/</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/voldemort/pom.xml b/voldemort/pom.xml
index d9948569..eb64f640 100644
--- a/voldemort/pom.xml
+++ b/voldemort/pom.xml
@@ -1,58 +1,58 @@
 <?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>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.4.0-RC1</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>
 
    <repositories>
      <repository>
        <id>clojars.org</id>
        <url>http://clojars.org/repo</url>
      </repository>
    </repositories>
 </project>