diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 4e06cf1713beb07794e2dfdf6cf867ea7d6ec132..9fbad66ae8fc7a76b13b4b5f737e679acac0ac8a 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ copyright = u'2010, scikits.learn developers (BSD Lincense)'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.6-rc'
+release = '0.6.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/doc/themes/scikit-learn/layout.html b/doc/themes/scikit-learn/layout.html
index edffc225c9e3b5c2a7de34a5dd6c2e5cdc758ad7..eb915728e7fdee370c82c5b2fade3ae06be97728 100644
--- a/doc/themes/scikit-learn/layout.html
+++ b/doc/themes/scikit-learn/layout.html
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
         {% else %}
         <h3>News</h3>
 
-       <p>scikits.learn 0.6 (release candidate) is available
+       <p>scikits.learn 0.6 is available
          for <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/scikit-learn/files/">download</a>.
          See <a href="{{pathto('whats_new')}}">what's new</a> and tips
          on <a href="{{pathto('install')}}">installing</a>.</p>
diff --git a/scikits/learn/__init__.py b/scikits/learn/__init__.py
index bf62a781674df98138bf133ecdd34b39c9c39502..5eef62887d90d9d7687a40281fdaccb43a00f3c0 100644
--- a/scikits/learn/__init__.py
+++ b/scikits/learn/__init__.py
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ __all__ = ['cross_val', 'ball_tree', 'cluster', 'covariance', 'datasets',
            'gmm', 'linear_model', 'logistic', 'lda', 'metrics', 'svm',
            'features', 'clone', 'metrics', 'test', 'gaussian_process']
 
-__version__ = '0.6.rc'
+__version__ = '0.6.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 28213f1561790173d4a7f1679974ae924bae502a..386db4493c067c52c5fd93ec6140db2be5c03aaf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ MAINTAINER_EMAIL    = 'fabian.pedregosa@inria.fr'
 URL                 = 'http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net'
 LICENSE             = 'new BSD'
 DOWNLOAD_URL        = 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/scikit-learn/files/'
-VERSION             = '0.6-rc'
+VERSION             = '0.6'
 
 import setuptools # we are using a setuptools namespace
 from numpy.distutils.core import setup