diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 1675fdb469e..03b43a5c15a 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 7.6.rc2, Release Date: 2017-03-19
+SageMath version 7.6, Release Date: 2017-03-25
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index c13f894895d..80ea8d9ca72 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=4d033e562fe03ebfe416f12411044e8cec4df94c
-md5=4822e231514b2e5f93f61fd078e2e4cc
-cksum=271749219
+sha1=7a84c43745334f9940826319b4799e3e7883ee17
+md5=e897b888529be545e40ddb697c778a89
+cksum=3005224762
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index dba40afcf75..0d389107a34 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-211
+212
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-banner b/src/bin/sage-banner
index f9bcdadd4e1..713519bfc9e 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-banner
+++ b/src/bin/sage-banner
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-│ SageMath version 7.6.rc2, Release Date: 2017-03-19                 │
+│ SageMath version 7.6, Release Date: 2017-03-25                     │
 │ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        │
 │ Type "help()" for help.                                            │
 └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
-┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     ┃
-┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 267b191e251..b168f200bc6 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='7.6.rc2'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2017-03-19'
+SAGE_VERSION='7.6'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2017-03-25'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index a86d89c955e..17f9cdfb98f 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '7.6.rc2'
-date = '2017-03-19'
+version = '7.6'
+date = '2017-03-25'