diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a8d9342..11d3016 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ jackson-databind, for example...
 Ideally, there will be some user interface to visualize information from
 a run of Tika via tika-eval.
 
+# Version Notes
+
+* 1.0.0-BETA5 -- this has known regressions in commons-compress and should be used for demo purposes only.
+
 # Release Notes
 At some point, we should use jreleaser.  We aren't yet doing that.
 
@@ -57,12 +61,12 @@ The release is currently triggered by pushing a tag starting with 'v'.
 
 Before running this, change the version to the version you intend to release.
 
-```git tag -a "v1.0.0-SNAPSHOT" -m "v1.0.0-SNAPSHOT release" && git push origin v1.0.0-SNAPSHOT```
+```git tag -a "v1.0.0-BETA5" -m "v1.0.0-BETA5 release" && git push origin v1.0.0-BETA5```
 
 Change the version back to the development/SNAPSHOT version.
 
 If you need to re-release, delete the tag:
-```git push --delete origin v1.0.0-SNAPSHOT && git tag --delete v1.0.0-SNAPSHOT```
+```git push --delete origin v1.0.0-BETA5 && git tag --delete v1.0.0-BETA5```
 
 We should figure out how to sign artifacts and offer sha256s.  Again, see jreleaser above.
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 95fac2d..ed5b50e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
   <artifactId>tika-gui-v2</artifactId>
   <groupId>org.tallison</groupId>
-  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.0.0-BETA5</version>
 
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
diff --git a/tika-gui-app/pom.xml b/tika-gui-app/pom.xml
index 9594a44..a6c2a5e 100644
--- a/tika-gui-app/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-gui-app/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>tika-gui-v2</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.tallison</groupId>
-    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.0-BETA5</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>tika-gui-app</artifactId>
diff --git a/tika-gui-tools/pom.xml b/tika-gui-tools/pom.xml
index 2803bda..d228761 100644
--- a/tika-gui-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-gui-tools/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>tika-gui-v2</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.tallison</groupId>
-    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.0-BETA5</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>tika-gui-tools</artifactId>