diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 805a16c..e2d5c54 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Manual changes to this file will be lost when it is generated again.
 Edit the files in the src/main/asciidoc/ directory instead.
 ////
 
+
 == Spring Cloud Schema Registry
 
 When organizations have a messaging based pub/sub architecture and multiple producer and consumer microservices communicate each other, it is often necessary for all those microservices to agree on a contract that is based on a schema.
@@ -103,6 +104,11 @@ https://eclipse.org[Eclipse] when working with the code. We use the
 https://eclipse.org/m2e/[m2eclipse] eclipse plugin for maven support. Other IDEs and tools
 should also work without issue as long as they use Maven 3.3.3 or better.
 
+==== Activate the Spring Maven profile
+Spring Cloud projects require the 'spring' Maven profile to be activated to resolve
+the spring milestone and snapshot repositories. Use your preferred IDE to set this
+profile to be active, or you may experience build errors.
+
 ==== Importing into eclipse with m2eclipse
 We recommend the https://eclipse.org/m2e/[m2eclipse] eclipse plugin when working with
 eclipse. If you don't already have m2eclipse installed it is available from the "eclipse
diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
index 3531193..8e69d6b 100644
--- a/docs/pom.xml
+++ b/docs/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-schema-registry-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.1.0-M2</version>
 	</parent>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<name>Spring Cloud Schema Registry Docs</name>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index db46062..5927a3e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <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>
 	<artifactId>spring-cloud-schema-registry-parent</artifactId>
-	<version>1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.1.0-M2</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 	</scm>
 	<properties>
 		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
-		<spring-cloud-stream.version>3.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</spring-cloud-stream.version>
+		<spring-cloud-stream.version>3.1.0-M2</spring-cloud-stream.version>
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnError>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnError>
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnViolation>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnViolation>
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-schema-registry-client/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-schema-registry-client/pom.xml
index 70bbd15..bac5652 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-schema-registry-client/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-schema-registry-client/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-schema-registry-parent</artifactId>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
-		<version>1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>1.1.0-M2</version>
 	</parent>
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/spring-cloud-schema-registry-core/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-schema-registry-core/pom.xml
index 55730e9..0fe4a62 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-schema-registry-core/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-schema-registry-core/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>spring-cloud-schema-registry-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
-        <version>1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>1.1.0-M2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-schema-registry-server/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-schema-registry-server/pom.xml
index dd3231a..a69d897 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-schema-registry-server/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-schema-registry-server/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>spring-cloud-schema-registry-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
-        <version>1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>1.1.0-M2</version>
     </parent>
 
     <properties>