diff --git a/src/Directory.build.props b/src/Directory.build.props
deleted file mode 100644
index 640cae627..000000000
--- a/src/Directory.build.props
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<Project>
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <Company>ICSharpCode</Company>
-    <Authors>ICSharpCode</Authors>
-    <Description>SharpZipLib (#ziplib, formerly NZipLib) is a compression library for Zip, GZip, BZip2, and Tar written entirely in C# for .NET. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET language)</Description>
-    <PackageLicenseUrl>http://icsharpcode.github.io/SharpZipLib/#license</PackageLicenseUrl>
-    <PackageProjectUrl>http://icsharpcode.github.io/SharpZipLib/</PackageProjectUrl>
-    <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/PrismLibrary/Prism</RepositoryUrl>
-    <ReleaseNotes>Please see https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/wiki/Release-1.0 for more information.</ReleaseNotes>
-    <Copyright>Copyright © 2000-2017 SharpZipLib Contributors</Copyright>
-    <PackageTags>Compression Library Zip GZip BZip2 LZW Tar</PackageTags>
-    <NeutralLanguage>en-US</NeutralLanguage>
-    <Version>$(fullBuildSemanticVersion)</Version>
-    <AssemblyVersion>$(fullBuildVersion)</AssemblyVersion>
-    <FileVersion>$(fullBuildVersion)</FileVersion>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-</Project>
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diff --git a/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj b/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj
index db1440df1..97b82e63f 100644
--- a/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj
+++ b/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj
@@ -2,13 +2,27 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFrameworks>netstandard2;net45</TargetFrameworks>
-    <PackageId>SharpZipLib </PackageId>
     <SignAssembly>True</SignAssembly>
     <AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.snk</AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>
     <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
-    <Version>1.0.0-alpha2</Version>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+  
+  <!-- Nuget specific tags -->
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <AssemblyVersion>1.0.0.3</AssemblyVersion>
+    <FileVersion>1.0.0.3</FileVersion>
+    <Version>1.0.0-rc1</Version>
+    <PackageId>SharpZipLib </PackageId>
+    <Company>ICSharpCode</Company>
+    <Authors>ICSharpCode</Authors>
+    <Description>SharpZipLib (#ziplib, formerly NZipLib) is a compression library for Zip, GZip, BZip2, and Tar written entirely in C# for .NET. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET language)</Description>
+    <PackageLicenseUrl>https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/raw/master/LICENSE.txt</PackageLicenseUrl>
+    <PackageProjectUrl>http://icsharpcode.github.io/SharpZipLib/</PackageProjectUrl>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib</RepositoryUrl>
-    <PackageReleaseNotes>This is a pre-release version!
+    <Copyright>Copyright © 2000-2018 SharpZipLib Contributors</Copyright>
+    <PackageTags>Compression Library Zip GZip BZip2 LZW Tar</PackageTags>
+    <NeutralLanguage>en-US</NeutralLanguage>
+    <PackageReleaseNotes>This is a release candidate for v1.0
 
 Please see https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/wiki/Release-1.0 for more information.</PackageReleaseNotes>
     <PackageLicenseUrl>https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/blob/master/LICENSE.txt</PackageLicenseUrl>