diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 781999196..5bb26408b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>chronicle-map</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.22rc3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.0.22rc6-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>OpenHFT/Chronicle-Map</name>
     <description>Chronicle-Map</description>
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>net.openhft</groupId>
                 <artifactId>lang</artifactId>
-                <version>6.4.22-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <version>6.4.22</version>
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>
@@ -142,6 +142,24 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
+
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+                <includes>
+                    <include>**/map.version</include>
+                </includes>
+            </resource>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>false</filtering>
+                <excludes>
+                    <exclude>**/map.version</exclude>
+                </excludes>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
         <plugins>
 
             <plugin>
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/BuildVersion.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/BuildVersion.java
index f1539d072..1912296a7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/BuildVersion.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/BuildVersion.java
@@ -21,16 +21,14 @@ package net.openhft.chronicle.map;
 import shaded.org.apache.maven.model.Model;
 import shaded.org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileReader;
-import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.*;
 
 /**
  * gets the version of the current build
  */
 class BuildVersion {
 
-   private static String version = null;
+    private static String version = null;
 
     /**
      * @return version of ChronicleMap being used, or NULL if its not known
@@ -41,7 +39,23 @@ class BuildVersion {
             return version;
         }
 
-        // the best way to get the version is to read it from the manifest
+        try {
+            // the best way to get the version is to read the map.version file
+            InputStream resource = BuildVersion.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("map" +
+                    ".version");
+            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(resource));
+
+            version = in.readLine().trim();
+            if (!"${project.version}".equals(version()))
+                return version;
+
+            return version;
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // do nothing
+        }
+
+
+        // another way to get the version is to read it from the manifest
         final String versionFromManifest = getVersionFromManifest();
 
         if (versionFromManifest != null) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java
index 9a3eebdfe..bc3d29419 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.ByteOrder;
 import java.nio.channels.*;
 import java.util.*;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 
 import static java.nio.channels.SelectionKey.*;
@@ -70,7 +71,8 @@ final class TcpReplicator<K, V> extends AbstractChannelReplicator implements Clo
     private static final byte NOT_SET = (byte) HEARTBEAT.ordinal();
     private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TcpReplicator.class.getName());
     private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 0x100000; // 1MB
-    private static final int SPIN_LOOP_COUNT = 100000;
+
+    public static final long SPIN_LOOP_TIME_IN_NONOSECONDS = TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS.toNanos(500);
     private final SelectionKey[] selectionKeysStore = new SelectionKey[Byte.MAX_VALUE + 1];
     // used to instruct the selector thread to set OP_WRITE on a key correlated by the bit index
     // in the bitset
@@ -269,13 +271,14 @@ final class TcpReplicator<K, V> extends AbstractChannelReplicator implements Clo
     /**
      * spin loops 100000 times first before calling the selector with timeout
      *
-     * @return
+     * @return The number of keys, possibly zero, whose ready-operation sets were updated
      * @throws IOException
      */
     private int select() throws IOException {
 
-        // spin loop 100000 times
-        for (int i = 0; i < SPIN_LOOP_COUNT; i++) {
+        long start = System.nanoTime();
+
+        while (System.nanoTime() < start + SPIN_LOOP_TIME_IN_NONOSECONDS) {
             final int keys = selector.selectNow();
             if (keys != 0)
                 return keys;
@@ -1632,7 +1635,7 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
         final Function<V, ?> function = (Function<V, ?>) reader.readObject();
         try {
             Object result = map.getMapped(key, function);
-          writeObject(writer,result);
+            writeObject(writer, result);
         } catch (Throwable e) {
             LOG.info("", e);
             return sendException(writer, sizeLocation, e);
@@ -1649,7 +1652,7 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
         final UnaryOperator<V> unaryOperator = (UnaryOperator<V>) reader.readObject();
         try {
             Object result = map.putMapped(key, unaryOperator);
-           writeObject(writer,result);
+            writeObject(writer, result);
         } catch (Throwable e) {
             LOG.info("", e);
             return sendException(writer, sizeLocation, e);
@@ -1756,7 +1759,7 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
         final long remaining = writer.in().remaining();
         try {
             String result = map.persistedDataVersion();
-            writeObject(writer,result);
+            writeObject(writer, result);
         } catch (Throwable e) {
             return sendException(writer, sizeLocation, e);
         }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/map.version b/src/main/resources/map.version
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f2ab45c3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/map.version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+${project.version}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/MapByNameTest.java b/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/MapByNameTest.java
index 6ac2e3b72..44924b1c1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/MapByNameTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/MapByNameTest.java
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ public class MapByNameTest {
         ChronicleMap<CharSequence, CharSequence> myMap2 = mapByName.from("myMap");
     }
 
+    @Ignore("causing issues on windows")
     @Test
     public void testReplicationHubSerialization() throws IOException, InterruptedException,
             TimeoutException {
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicationSoakTest.java b/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicationSoakTest.java
index 7b1aaee1e..13a4bbf25 100644
--- a/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicationSoakTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicationSoakTest.java
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ public class TcpReplicationSoakTest {
     }
 
 
-    @Ignore
     @Test
     public void testSoakTestWithRandomData() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
         try {