diff --git a/distributions/openhab-addons/pom.xml b/distributions/openhab-addons/pom.xml
index b74f775564..34b58afa9c 100644
--- a/distributions/openhab-addons/pom.xml
+++ b/distributions/openhab-addons/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-distributions</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>openhab-addons</artifactId>
diff --git a/distributions/openhab-demo/pom.xml b/distributions/openhab-demo/pom.xml
index a3594d017f..cf33e7800f 100644
--- a/distributions/openhab-demo/pom.xml
+++ b/distributions/openhab-demo/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-distributions</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>openhab-demo</artifactId>
diff --git a/distributions/openhab-verify/pom.xml b/distributions/openhab-verify/pom.xml
index 50b52a8150..a6af6573d8 100644
--- a/distributions/openhab-verify/pom.xml
+++ b/distributions/openhab-verify/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-distributions</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>openhab-verify</artifactId>
diff --git a/distributions/openhab/pom.xml b/distributions/openhab/pom.xml
index 1f899887e4..0ba0c25db3 100644
--- a/distributions/openhab/pom.xml
+++ b/distributions/openhab/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-distributions</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>openhab</artifactId>
diff --git a/distributions/pom.xml b/distributions/pom.xml
index 123080ff76..54ac09f277 100644
--- a/distributions/pom.xml
+++ b/distributions/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>pom-distributions</artifactId>
diff --git a/features/addons/pom.xml b/features/addons/pom.xml
index 142a987361..41c8ca777d 100644
--- a/features/addons/pom.xml
+++ b/features/addons/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-features</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>addons</artifactId>
diff --git a/features/distro-kar/pom.xml b/features/distro-kar/pom.xml
index ed52a8ebbe..6d77c3a0c2 100644
--- a/features/distro-kar/pom.xml
+++ b/features/distro-kar/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-features</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>distro-kar</artifactId>
diff --git a/features/distro/pom.xml b/features/distro/pom.xml
index 33e98c0ac5..36be0a63c8 100644
--- a/features/distro/pom.xml
+++ b/features/distro/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom-features</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>distro</artifactId>
diff --git a/features/pom.xml b/features/pom.xml
index cde2150f76..3332fb8652 100644
--- a/features/pom.xml
+++ b/features/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
     <artifactId>pom</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>pom-features</artifactId>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 234e2a63b8..bc0a549653 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
@@ -11,7 +9,7 @@
 
   <groupId>org.openhab.distro</groupId>
   <artifactId>pom</artifactId>
-  <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>4.2.0.M3</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <name>openHAB Distribution</name>
@@ -32,7 +30,7 @@
   <scm>
     <connection>scm:git:${scm.gitBaseUrl}/openhab-distro.git</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:${scm.gitBaseUrl}/openhab-distro.git</developerConnection>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    <tag>4.2.0.M3</tag>
     <url>https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro</url>
   </scm>
 
@@ -58,8 +56,8 @@
 
     <online.repo.version>${parsedVersion.majorVersion}.${parsedVersion.minorVersion}</online.repo.version>
 
-    <ohc.version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</ohc.version>
-    <oha.version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</oha.version>
+    <ohc.version>4.2.0.M3</ohc.version>
+    <oha.version>4.2.0.M3</oha.version>
 
     <karaf.version>4.4.5</karaf.version>
 
@@ -211,8 +209,8 @@
                   </files>
                   <version>${spotless.eclipse.wtp.version}</version>
                 </eclipseWtp>
-                <trimTrailingWhitespace></trimTrailingWhitespace>
-                <endWithNewline></endWithNewline>
+                <trimTrailingWhitespace/>
+                <endWithNewline/>
               </format>
             </formats>
           </configuration>
@@ -305,7 +303,7 @@
       <properties>
         <build.number>Release Build</build.number>
         <online.repo>${oh.repo.releaseBaseUrl}/libs-release</online.repo>
-        <pax.url.suffix></pax.url.suffix>
+        <pax.url.suffix/>
       </properties>
     </profile>
     <profile>
@@ -318,7 +316,7 @@
       <properties>
         <build.number>Milestone Build</build.number>
         <online.repo>${oh.repo.releaseBaseUrl}/libs-milestone</online.repo>
-        <pax.url.suffix></pax.url.suffix>
+        <pax.url.suffix/>
       </properties>
     </profile>
     <profile>