diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-tools-api/pom.xml
index fe5bf51..838b29c 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
   <artifactId>maven-plugin-tools-api</artifactId>
   <name>Maven Plugin Tools APIs</name>
-  <description>The Maven Plugin Tools API provides an API to extract information from and generate documentation for Maven 2 Plugins.</description>
+  <description>The Maven Plugin Tools API provides an API to extract information from and generate documentation for Maven Plugins.</description>
 
   <dependencies>
     <!-- maven -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 492000d..5679e40 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <name>Maven Plugin Tools</name>
-  <description>The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to be able to produce Maven 2 Plugins in a variety of languages.</description>
+  <description>The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to be able to produce Maven Plugins in a variety of languages.</description>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/</url>
   <inceptionYear>2004</inceptionYear>