diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c98317c..b04bd98 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
   <name>Jackson-core</name>
-  <version>2.8.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>bundle</packaging>
   <description>Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation</description>
   <inceptionYear>2008</inceptionYear>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <!-- 29-Apr-2016, tatu: Retain Java6/JDK1.6 compatibility for streaming for Jackson 2.8 -->
+    <!-- 16-Sep-2016, tatu: Retain Java6/JDK1.6 compatibility for streaming for Jackson 2.x -->
     <javac.src.version>1.6</javac.src.version>
     <javac.target.version>1.6</javac.target.version>