diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 52fe9b7..6ec3b31 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <equals.verifier.version>3.4.1</equals.verifier.version>
-        <so-core-version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</so-core-version>
+        <so-core-version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</so-core-version>
     </properties>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/releases/1.9.0.yaml b/releases/1.9.0.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f429bf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/1.9.0.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+distribution_type: 'container'
+container_release_tag: '1.9.0'
+project: 'so'
+log_dir: 'so-so-admin-cockpit-maven-docker-stage-master/221'
+ref: '1f9900ca515e5bc6ea5e1c26dedeabb5426b9296'
+containers:
+    - name: 'so/so-admin-cockpit'
+      version: '1.9.0-20210916T1450'
diff --git a/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow-handler/pom.xml b/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow-handler/pom.xml
index bd099d6..898d6f2 100644
--- a/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow-handler/pom.xml
+++ b/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow/so-admin-cockpit-monitoring-workflow-handler/pom.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,20 @@
             <groupId>org.onap.so</groupId>
             <artifactId>common</artifactId>
             <version>${so-core-version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.onap.logging-analytics</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>logging-slf4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>tomcat-catalina</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>