diff --git a/documentation/releasenotes.rst b/documentation/releasenotes.rst
index 54ca51d..2831cd5 100644
--- a/documentation/releasenotes.rst
+++ b/documentation/releasenotes.rst
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ Release Notes
 
 .. currentmodule:: setuptools_dso
 
-2.10 (UNRELEASED)
------------------
+2.10 (Nov 2023)
+---------------
 
 * Support for namespace packages (Nathan Shiraini)
 * Propagate inplace to all sub-Command (Nathan Shiraini)
+* correctly test for aarch64 endianness
 
 2.9 (June 2023)
 ---------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 92d008d..af1b96c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='setuptools_dso',
-    version="2.10a1",
+    version="2.10",
     description="setuptools extension to build non-python shared libraries",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',