diff --git a/api/pom.xml b/api/pom.xml
index d4b1cbf..05a261a 100644
--- a/api/pom.xml
+++ b/api/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
     <groupId>jakarta.el</groupId>
     <artifactId>jakarta.el-api</artifactId>
-    <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>5.0.0-M3</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>Jakarta Expression Language API</name>
diff --git a/impl/pom.xml b/impl/pom.xml
index c8f0c6c..a9c0668 100644
--- a/impl/pom.xml
+++ b/impl/pom.xml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>jakarta.el</groupId>
             <artifactId>jakarta.el-api</artifactId>
-            <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>5.0.0-M3</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>