diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index e7d98f6084013d114b388530b461f7a2871049be..1843fec806413941b33dc3dafaae2f97ad79e983 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ copyright = u'2010, scikits.learn developers'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.6-git'
+release = '0.6-rc'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/scikits/learn/__init__.py b/scikits/learn/__init__.py
index 3d2cce01fdd3720a152f00229f4fe60dd007e84a..bf62a781674df98138bf133ecdd34b39c9c39502 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.git'
+__version__ = '0.6.rc'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bcb5b0ad20fdbd21d1057c22da383c3d54b028f1..28213f1561790173d4a7f1679974ae924bae502a 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-git'
+VERSION             = '0.6-rc'
 
 import setuptools # we are using a setuptools namespace
 from numpy.distutils.core import setup