3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 46377027..c2a3528f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pull request numbers to the requests at
 
 Version 1.6
 -----------
-(in development)
+(released Feb 3, 2013)
 
 - Lexers added:
 
diff --git a/pygments/__init__.py b/pygments/__init__.py
index ff8c3121..2bfd8ba5 100644
--- a/pygments/__init__.py
+++ b/pygments/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
 """
 
-__version__ = '1.6rc1'
+__version__ = '1.6'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
 
 __all__ = ['lex', 'format', 'highlight']
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91646d69..17bbf814 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ else:
 
 setup(
     name = 'Pygments',
-    version = '1.6rc1',
+    version = '1.6',
     url = 'http://pygments.org/',
     license = 'BSD License',
     author = 'Georg Brandl',