diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 8183b8845e..dccd05c8b7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Nutch Change Log
 
-(trunk) Current Development:
+Release 1.6 - 23/11/2012
 
 * NUTCH-1370 Expose exact number of urls injected @runtime (snagel via lewismc)
 
diff --git a/conf/nutch-default.xml b/conf/nutch-default.xml
index 46d3ce0931..cb27372e1d 100644
--- a/conf/nutch-default.xml
+++ b/conf/nutch-default.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 
 <property>
   <name>http.agent.version</name>
-  <value>Nutch-1.6-SNAPSHOT</value>
+  <value>Nutch-1.6</value>
   <description>A version string to advertise in the User-Agent 
    header.</description>
 </property>
diff --git a/default.properties b/default.properties
index b33b0a609f..f4b2f605a0 100644
--- a/default.properties
+++ b/default.properties
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 name=apache-nutch
-version=1.6-SNAPSHOT
+version=1.6
 final.name=${name}-${version}
 year=2012