diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index e81b8e56df..ab3021778e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ group=org.apache.kafka
 #  - tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
 #  - tests/kafkatest/version.py (variable DEV_VERSION)
 #  - kafka-merge-pr.py
-version=1.0.0-rc1
+version=1.0.0
 scalaVersion=2.13.10
 task=build
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2g -Xss4m -XX:+UseParallelGC
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
index cd6c381762..d9b4b1c0f8 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 # Instead, in development branches, the version should have a suffix of the form ".devN"
 #
 # For example, when Kafka is at version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, this should be something like "1.0.0.dev0"
-__version__ = '1.0.0-rc1'
+__version__ = '1.0.0'
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/version.py b/tests/kafkatest/version.py
index 33d28221cc..1f558c3a3b 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/version.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/version.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ def get_version(node=None):
         return DEV_BRANCH
 
 DEV_BRANCH = KafkaVersion("dev")
-DEV_VERSION = KafkaVersion("1.0.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT")
+DEV_VERSION = KafkaVersion("1.0.0")
 
 LATEST_METADATA_VERSION = "3.3"