diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b443938bfb6..0f3c5465c7a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
   <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-  <version>8.44-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>8.44</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>checkstyle</name>