diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 30ae049f55..f7c70e90b0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+
+Version 7.6
+
 Daniel (26 January 2001)
 - Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small
   piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 0984840bb9..b23dae77db 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ char *curl_getenv(char *variable);
 char *curl_version(void);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.6-pre4"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.6"
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070600
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 357a0a61a0..742155a0e1 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.6-pre4"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.6"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "