diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index bcc91bc..99b6eaf 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -1 +1,10 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project-modules id="moduleCoreId"/>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
+    <wb-module deploy-name="social-networking-library-ws-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT">
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp" tag="defaultRootSource"/>
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
+        <property name="context-root" value="social-networking-library-ws"/>
+        <property name="java-output-path" value="/social-networking-library-ws/target/classes"/>
+    </wb-module>
+</project-modules>
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
index f1ae76c..e69dcd9 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <faceted-project>
   <fixed facet="wst.jsdt.web"/>
-  <installed facet="jst.web" version="3.0"/>
-  <installed facet="wst.jsdt.web" version="1.0"/>
-  <installed facet="jst.jaxrs" version="1.1"/>
   <installed facet="java" version="1.8"/>
+  <installed facet="jst.web" version="3.0"/>
+  <installed facet="jst.jaxrs" version="2.1"/>
+  <installed facet="wst.jsdt.web" version="1.0"/>
 </faceted-project>
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 02739ac..0e45fdf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## [v3.0.0] - 2023-12-06
+## [v3.0.0-SNAPSHOT] - 2023-12-06
 
 - Feature #26193, new impl for get users by role in a VRE
 - Replace Astyanx Java client for Cassandra 2 with Datastax client for Cassandra 4
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ef6d163..11811b3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	<groupId>org.gcube.portal</groupId>
 	<artifactId>social-networking-library-ws</artifactId>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
-	<version>3.0.0</version>
+	<version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>social-networking-library-ws</name>
 	<description>Rest interface for the social networking library.</description>
 	<properties>
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@
 	</properties>
 
 	<scm>
-		<connection>scm:git:https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem/${project.artifactId}.git</connection>
-		<developerConnection>scm:git:https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem/${project.artifactId}.git</developerConnection>
+		<connection>
+			scm:git:https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem/${project.artifactId}.git</connection>
+		<developerConnection>
+			scm:git:https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem/${project.artifactId}.git</developerConnection>
 		<url>https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem/${project.artifactId}</url>
 	</scm>
 
@@ -214,6 +216,17 @@
 			<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-cbor</artifactId>
 			<version>2.8.6</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<!-- needed by the search-->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
+			<version>1.9.2</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
+			<version>1.9.2</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.datastax.oss</groupId>
 			<artifactId>java-driver-query-builder</artifactId>
@@ -235,7 +248,8 @@
 			<version>2.6</version>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<!-- Please note that the elasticsearch client needs a compress-lzf version 
+		<!-- Please note that the elasticsearch client needs a compress-lzf
+		version 
 			>= 1.0.2 -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.ning</groupId>
@@ -245,7 +259,8 @@
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
-			<!-- if your container implements Servlet API older than 3.0, use "jersey-container-servlet-core" -->
+			<!-- if your container implements Servlet API older than 3.0, use
+			"jersey-container-servlet-core" -->
 			<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
@@ -320,7 +335,8 @@
 				<artifactId>sphinx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>2.10.0</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/docs</outputDirectory>
+					<outputDirectory>
+						${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/docs</outputDirectory>
 					<builder>html</builder>
 					<configDirectory>${basedir}/docs</configDirectory>
 					<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/docs</sourceDirectory>
@@ -342,7 +358,8 @@
 				<configuration>
 					<sourcepath-includes>
 						<sourcepath-include>
-							<!-- Include the "com.external:external" artifact on the sourcepath. -->
+							<!-- Include the "com.external:external" artifact on
+							the sourcepath. -->
 							<groupId>org.gcube.social-networking</groupId>
 							<artifactId>social-service-model</artifactId>
 						</sourcepath-include>
@@ -365,7 +382,8 @@
 				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 				<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 			</plugin>
-			<!-- Copy Enunciate Documentation from your-application/docs to your-application.war -->
+			<!-- Copy Enunciate Documentation from your-application/docs to
+			your-application.war -->
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 				<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -381,8 +399,10 @@
 							<outputDirectory>target</outputDirectory>
 							<resources>
 								<resource>
-									<targetPath>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/api-docs</targetPath>
-									<directory>${project.build.directory}/api-docs</directory>
+									<targetPath>
+										${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/api-docs</targetPath>
+									<directory>
+										${project.build.directory}/api-docs</directory>
 									<filtering>true</filtering>
 								</resource>
 							</resources>