diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
index b6dc7ed28..8e9af9116 100644
--- a/docs/pom.xml
+++ b/docs/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<name>spring-cloud-stream-core-docs</name>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1e70cd954..4515b48e0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 		 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-stream-parent</artifactId>
-	<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-binder-test/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-binder-test/pom.xml
index 154ed8453..26aa295d7 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-binder-test/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-binder-test/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<dependencies>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-integration-tests/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-integration-tests/pom.xml
index afa33f28f..f6b2d5367 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<dependencies>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-reactive/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-reactive/pom.xml
index 4566fbcb3..70418cfbc 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-reactive/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-reactive/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-schema-server/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-schema-server/pom.xml
index 24906e094..55cfd183f 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-schema-server/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-schema-server/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<dependencies>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-schema/foodorder.avro b/spring-cloud-stream-schema/foodorder.avro
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..81157d666
Binary files /dev/null and b/spring-cloud-stream-schema/foodorder.avro differ
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-schema/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-schema/pom.xml
index c10135c76..a38da8fbb 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-schema/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-schema/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-test-support-internal/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-test-support-internal/pom.xml
index db2c08e2c..752d2a7f3 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-test-support-internal/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-test-support-internal/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-test-support-internal</artifactId>
 	<description>Set of classes and utility code that may assist in testing both
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-test-support/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-test-support/pom.xml
index ddcf23c58..47c70e899 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-test-support/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-test-support/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-test-support</artifactId>
 	<description>A set of classes to ease testing of Spring Cloud Stream modules.
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml
index d371cd7ea..f282e6c49 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml
@@ -1,11 +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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-cloud-build</artifactId>
-        <version>2.1.4.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.1.4.RELEASE</version>
         <relativePath />
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream/pom.xml
index b1c5dc0d7..80997a74f 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>2.2.0.RC1</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<dependencies>