diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 0f3b6e3..4003efb 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
-1.6 (unreleased)
+1.6 (2012-05-01)
 ----------------
 
 - The Permission and Role components moved from the grok package to the
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 94b7eb6..e885abd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def read(*rnames):
 
 setup(
     name='grokcore.security',
-    version='1.6dev',
+    version='1.6',
     author='Grok Team',
     author_email='grok-dev@zope.org',
     url='http://grok.zope.org',