diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d7ed72c..5af97719 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-09-17  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version to 6.0.
+
 2013-09-17  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* jtag3.c (jtag3_initialize): Fix a buffer overflow by limiting
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c450ba70..02c366ae 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Approximate change log for AVRDUDE by version.
 (For more detailed changes, see the ChangeLog file.)
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Current:
+Version 6.0:
 
   * Major changes compared to the previous version:
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4eb2f49e..9224080f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 6.0rc1, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 6.0, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST