diff --git a/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/artifacts-pom.xml b/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/artifacts-pom.xml
index 3473818dd5..94df3b9174 100644
--- a/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/artifacts-pom.xml
+++ b/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/artifacts-pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
   <groupId>jakarta.ee.tck</groupId>
   <artifactId>core-profile-tck-dependencies</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <version>10.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <!-- This is set to project release version during assembly -->
+  <version>${project.version}</version>
   <name>Jakarta Core Profile TCK Dependencies</name>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml b/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
index 131e128ed7..4ae3589ce2 100644
--- a/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
+++ b/core-profile-tck/tck-dist/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
          <source>artifacts-pom.xml</source>
          <destName>pom.xml</destName>
          <outputDirectory>artifacts</outputDirectory>
+         <filtered>true</filtered>
       </file>
       <!-- The HTML and PDF versions of the TCK userguide -->
       <file>