diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 653efe7c86407c2152fc65c2f61262028292c6b1..c3c112edfee02b144a15dcadbff48d00580bde74 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-minerva (16.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
+minerva (16.3.0~beta.0) unstable; urgency=medium
   * Small improvement: import/export of GPML support authors data (#1724)
   * Small improvement: import/export of SBGN-ML support authors data (#1725)
   * Small improvement: import/export of SBGN-ML support map dimension
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ minerva (16.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
   * Bug fix: special character in annotation id (like "HGNC_SYMBOL:SNC&A"
     generated corrupted GPML on export)
 
- -- Piotr Gawron <piotr.gawron@uni.lu>  Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200
+ -- Piotr Gawron <piotr.gawron@uni.lu>  Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0200
 
 minerva (16.2.13) stable; urgency=medium
   * Bug fix: uniprot removed information about locus id - annotation with tair
diff --git a/CellDesigner-plugin/pom.xml b/CellDesigner-plugin/pom.xml
index e84539879b76663ca2697c51afbcd76879727fea..da7b0da5998ff4ac37d93e1af469902aecf6e1e3 100644
--- a/CellDesigner-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/CellDesigner-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>CellDesigner-plugin</artifactId>
 	<!-- dependency from the MapViewer model -->
@@ -50,19 +50,19 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/annotation/pom.xml b/annotation/pom.xml
index d82af8a6a9ce9b961f820c042f33a2dd6323f9bc..5d913d763db446c07a71cc3d716416ba5c1d8062 100644
--- a/annotation/pom.xml
+++ b/annotation/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>annotation</artifactId>
 	<name>Annotation module</name>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the MapViewer dao -->
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>persist</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the MapViewer cell designer parser (we need access 
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2 -->
diff --git a/commons/pom.xml b/commons/pom.xml
index 4eccd232e87bada035f7c7d137b0e1a679b913a1..feecf7f208b69843f5f574e9cb2b3bca573ed3ac 100644
--- a/commons/pom.xml
+++ b/commons/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>commons</artifactId>
 	<name>Mapviewer commons</name>
diff --git a/converter-CellDesigner/pom.xml b/converter-CellDesigner/pom.xml
index a45a99df5eb84109bf1993ee455fad5af1b2692c..798337837d5d3e23e5059b25a5c60cfca6c0dd7c 100644
--- a/converter-CellDesigner/pom.xml
+++ b/converter-CellDesigner/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
 	<name>CellDesigner converter</name>
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2 -->
diff --git a/converter-SBGNML/pom.xml b/converter-SBGNML/pom.xml
index 0d8243e0ab1f7181facb1ab0ec8efd180b297c58..8b471e70f037727cb2c64606661f81ec2dd15db4 100644
--- a/converter-SBGNML/pom.xml
+++ b/converter-SBGNML/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>converter-SBGNML</artifactId>
 
@@ -20,26 +20,26 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>persist</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-graphics</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/converter-graphics/pom.xml b/converter-graphics/pom.xml
index 38c3504e7d6763d7584590586eea881cba24d228..70765ef91e02b41020cdc1c6479dde02e5fa3f7d 100644
--- a/converter-graphics/pom.xml
+++ b/converter-graphics/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>converter-graphics</artifactId>
 	<name>MapViewer graphics converter</name>
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model-command</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2-->
diff --git a/converter-sbml/pom.xml b/converter-sbml/pom.xml
index eb934819dc491454cbb3b2b08f898fddd9f22387..1ed90a76792c605b99fe3565a3a60c301a63efba 100644
--- a/converter-sbml/pom.xml
+++ b/converter-sbml/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>converter-sbml</artifactId>
 	<name>converter-sbml</name>
@@ -40,22 +40,22 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model-command</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2 -->
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-graphics</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/converter/pom.xml b/converter/pom.xml
index 16ca8db538a560837188221feb47ec81774499dc..9ebd60648f378547bac7d6ce078bf6541272d1a9 100644
--- a/converter/pom.xml
+++ b/converter/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
     <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-    <version>16.3.0</version>
+    <version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>converter</artifactId>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
       <artifactId>model</artifactId>
-      <version>16.3.0</version>
+      <version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
     </dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>xerces</groupId>
diff --git a/frontend-js/pom.xml b/frontend-js/pom.xml
index 4fa50dcfbbced8c8c7cf70a79d71bad6ed40d886..6f6b6c7166e558c0d4405cfa244eb5b0f731ef50 100644
--- a/frontend-js/pom.xml
+++ b/frontend-js/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>frontend-js</artifactId>
 	<name>frontend-js</name>
diff --git a/model-command/pom.xml b/model-command/pom.xml
index b1ba739a098de1819fbb5b1773eeb70fa421f55b..a3735c411aeb11eb82e341f5481ff16621c32625 100644
--- a/model-command/pom.xml
+++ b/model-command/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
     <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-    <version>16.3.0</version>
+    <version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>model-command</artifactId>
   <name>Model commands</name>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 		<dependency>
     	<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
       <artifactId>model</artifactId>
-      <version>16.3.0</version>
+      <version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
     </dependency>
     
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 		<dependency>
       <groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
       <artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-      <version>16.3.0</version>
+      <version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2-->
diff --git a/model/pom.xml b/model/pom.xml
index 9324c0f0105083f91abee0ca76a742a80d8755ac..d5a7b23989a468098fe1416aa1e4bb8815b781cc 100644
--- a/model/pom.xml
+++ b/model/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>model</artifactId>
 	<name>model MapViewer</name>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		
 		<!-- Java xml serialization -->
diff --git a/pathvisio/pom.xml b/pathvisio/pom.xml
index 1ead73d42f743fedd5c777649fe716ccd7283db7..b7eb76100ff2f7cd34b7a980300361b82e67807e 100644
--- a/pathvisio/pom.xml
+++ b/pathvisio/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>pathvisio</artifactId>
 	<name>Pathvisio plugin</name>
@@ -77,26 +77,26 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-graphics</artifactId>
 			<scope>test</scope>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model-command</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2 -->
diff --git a/persist/pom.xml b/persist/pom.xml
index af1975aebb97728b2f88317f41620caeec1bff52..3b7caf22ffbc131475162f2e93d09367a27ff2aa 100644
--- a/persist/pom.xml
+++ b/persist/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>persist</artifactId>
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- apache ftp -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 99f3245f500782c2042d993469598b60ff93d539..cd6d040cd4c6c3f7dd725f0a3f9201fb3d849d6a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 	<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-	<version>16.3.0</version>
+	<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 
 	<name>parent MapViewer</name>
diff --git a/rest-api/pom.xml b/rest-api/pom.xml
index 3ddbfbabdaab895936faf8a8b13fb63e13673482..a10435aa3202147d0db61c25b5cea1a2a0b53dd2 100644
--- a/rest-api/pom.xml
+++ b/rest-api/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>rest-api</artifactId>
 	<name>rest-api</name>
@@ -19,19 +19,19 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>service</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>pathvisio</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/service/pom.xml b/service/pom.xml
index dc029af4b1d9d2ab8695ab76623886c50b5a20c0..53d9046d0cd4c7610603e481cb49125994db805e 100644
--- a/service/pom.xml
+++ b/service/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 
 	<artifactId>service</artifactId>
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the MapViewer dao -->
@@ -28,47 +28,47 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>persist</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>model-command</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>annotation</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the MapViewer cell designer parser -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-CellDesigner</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the MapViewer SBGN-ML parser -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-SBGNML</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the MapViewer graphics converter -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-graphics</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- dependency from the SBML parser -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>converter-sbml</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Log4J2 -->
diff --git a/web/pom.xml b/web/pom.xml
index 7b436433738cdd7fcc8dee75c07f3cd470919bb5..6647debb1e8eb6a4208999f0f8818bdfc44d13f5 100644
--- a/web/pom.xml
+++ b/web/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-		<version>16.3.0</version>
+		<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>web</artifactId>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
@@ -33,19 +33,19 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>service</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>rest-api</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>lcsb.mapviewer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>frontend-js</artifactId>
-			<version>16.3.0</version>
+			<version>16.3.0~beta.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>