diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index c1fafc065..1e9b3398b 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Changes from Ant 1.9.3 TO current
+Changes from Ant 1.9.3 TO Ant 1.9.4
 ===================================
 
 Changes that could break older environments:
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
    Bugzilla Report 54769
 
  * when matching an entry of a zip/tarfileset against a pattern a
-   leading slash will be stripped from the entry name.  Most archive
+   leading slash will be stripped from the entry name.  Most archives
    don't contain paths with leading slashes anyway.
    This may cause include/exclude patterns that start with a / to stop
    matching anything.  Such patterns only used to work by accident and
-   only on platforms with multiple file syste roots.
+   only on platforms with multiple file system roots.
    Bugzilla Report 53949
 
  * DirectoryScanner and thus fileset/dirset will now silently drop all
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 7aa0d995e..fc23a21e9 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   <property name="name" value="ant"/>
   <!-- this is the groupId of ant in the Maven repository -->
   <property name="groupid" value="org/apache/ant"/>
-  <property name="project.version" value="1.9.4beta"/>
+  <property name="project.version" value="1.9.4"/>
   <!-- pom.version is used when doing a distribution and must match with what is checked in under src/etc/poms -->
   <property name="pom.version" value="1.9.4-SNAPSHOT"/>
   <property name="manifest-version" value="1.9.4"/>